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Organized by Wainwright Fellow, Professor Darren Rosenblum, this workshop will explore how global economic and political power has shifted from the exclusive control of Westphalian states to a myriad of competing private and public actors.

Our conversations will concentrate on analyzing what these new regimes look like, how they exercise power, what value conflicts have emerged, and what law looks like in the midst of these radical shifts. How do economic resources and rights claims turn into legitimacy within law and material power? What are the techniques and purposes of boundaries – not just literal walls or borders, but those of jurisdiction and legal categories? What society is being imagined by the privatization of power transnationally?

We will attempt to answer these questions, and others that surface, through a collective engagement with central texts by Horatia Muir Watt and Frances Olsen, among others, as well as two or three draft texts from participants.

This workshop will resist the temptation to allow disciplines and methodologies to cabin independent thought: our conversations will cross disciplines (notably corporate law, family law, international private law, comparative law and others) and methodological approaches (critical theory, economic analyses including Marxism, pluralism and others).

External participants include Horatia Muir-Watt (Sciences Po), Kerry Rittich (Toronto), Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall), Chantal Thomas (Cornell), Amy Cohen (Ohio State) and Will Moon (Maryland).

Lunch and refreshments will be served. darren.rosenblum [at] mcgill.ca (Kindly RSVP to help us plan the catering).

Schedule

10 a.m. Welcome – Darren Rosenblum (Wainwright Fellow, UUÖ±²¥)

10:15-11:45 – Conversation One – How Multiple Regimes and Actors Dominate Transnational Space
Horatia Muir-Watt (Sciences Po)
Darren Rosenblum (Pace)
Moderator: Ignacio Cofone (UUÖ±²¥)

11:45 - 1 p.m. Lunch

1 - 2:30 – Conversation Two – Analyzing Distribution, Inequality and Competition in a Transnational Space
Amy Cohen (Ohio State)
Evan Fox-Decent (UUÖ±²¥)
Kerry Rittich (Toronto)
Chantal Thomas (Cornell)

Break

3-4:30 – Conversation Three: Inter-regime Interaction Across the Public/Private Divide
Frédéric Mégret (UUÖ±²¥)
Will Moon (Maryland)
Robert Wai (Osgoode)
Geneviève Saumier, Moderator (UUÖ±²¥)

4:30-4:40 – Closing Remarks – Dean Robert Leckey