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The Law of Transnational Governance (STG-MA-FCR-LAW)

STG-MA-FCR-LAW

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Law plays a key role in transnational governance. As transnational governance has grown in importance, specific legal practices have developed to meet the challenges it poses. This course aims to provide an understanding of transnational law as a field of scholarship and practice, which is developing alongside, instead of and/or in addition to ‘traditional’ areas of law, including international and national law.

Transnational law is a diverse field of theory and practice, which means that its goals and driving forces differ across policy areas. Common threads include a focus on formal and substantive inequalities in traditional (national and international) legal systems; long-standing tensions between international and national legal systems; and an intermingling of the ‘public’ and ‘private’ within transnational legal spaces, which is further complicated by the coexistence of overlapping legal systems in the same (policy) space. These common threads will be the focus of the first part of the course.

In order to make students aware of how the ongoing development of transnational law affects relevant policy areas, the second part of the course will consider the role of transnational law, especially through changes in the roles and mandates of public and private actors and relatedly public and private law, in these policy spaces. In order to ground these conceptual discussions, the course will highlight developments in specific policy areas, including: international security, environmental law and climate change, human rights, AI, and food.

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