Online webinar

This lecture has been cancelled due to ill health. It will be rescheduled for a later date. Apologies. Lecture summary: Rethinking International Law for the Commons Various social movements today seek to reclaim and reconfigure local and global resources, sites of production and infrastructures as commons. The lecture argues that key to successful processes of commoning is a revaluation of value. This revaluation entails understanding the value (singular), associated with capitalist markets, surplus and profit that is at the center of contemporary political economy. Attempts to redeem “values” (plural) such as democracy, sustainability and human rights that are omnipresent in political and legal discourses cannot succeed without understanding the constitutive role of law in processes of value production and valuation and unsettling their centrality. In reference to two sites of current struggles for the commons – global debates on the management of mineral resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction and local initiatives for the socialization of urban housing – the lecture explores international law’s significance for initiatives that seek to reclaim common wealth and govern it as common property. Isabel Feichtner is Professor of Public Law and International Economic Law at the University of Würzburg. Kindly supported by Cambridge University Press

Speaker: Karla Zambrano González (University of Valencia, Spain) She is an EU Climate Pact Ambassador and PhD candidate at University of Valencia, Spain. Her research is entitled: “The challenge of climate change in international and European law” and it is being conducted by Prof. Dr. Valentín Bou Franch. Her principal...

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary announced on 17 May that a Bill will be introduced in response to "the grave situation in Northern...

Hafsteinn Kristjansson (Oxford) “The Puzzle of the Continued Validity of a Legal Norm” Paper abstract: In virtue of what does a legal norm continue to be valid, especially when its legal basis loses its force? A norm is valid as law (valid law) if it has a sufficient basis in a source of law identified by a norm of...