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Friday, 11 November 2022 - 1.00pm
Location: 
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. Her research interests cover the distributive effects of international economic law, the democratization of society, and the law of the commons and commoning. She explores how institutional experiments, e.g., the redesign of money or Commons Public Partnerships, can support democratization and commoning. Her doctoral dissertation, The Law and Politics of WTO Waivers: Stability and Flexibility in Public International Law, was published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press. It gained renewed relevance with regard to recent demands for a TRIPS Waiver to facilitate the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently co-editing two volumes for publication in 2022, one on German (post-)colonial law and the other on legal constitutions of value(s).

 

Chaired by: Dr Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis

 

The Lauterpacht Centre Friday lecture series is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press

 

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