Professor Hans Lindahl from Tilburg University will give a public lecture at BSIS on Wednesday 08 April 2015, 14.00 16.00, entitled Boundaries, Limits, and Fault Lines: Democracy in a Global Context.
Hans Lindahl holds the Chair of Legal Philosophy at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He obtained law and philosophy degrees at the Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia, before taking a doctorate at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the University of Louvain (Belgium) in 1994. He has worked since at Tilburg, first in the Philosophy Department, currently in the Law School. His primary areas of research are legal and political philosophy. Lindahl has published numerous articles in these fields. His monograph, Fault Lines of Globalization: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality, was published with Oxford University Press in 2013. His current research is primarily oriented to issues germane to globalization processes, such as the concept of legal order in a global setting; the relation of boundaries to freedom, justice, and security; a politics of boundary-setting alternative to both cosmopolitanism and communitarianism; transformations of legal authority and political representation; immigration and global justice; collective identity and difference in the process of European integration. In dealing with these topics Lindahl draws on (post-) phenomenology and theories of collective action of analytical provenance, while also seeking to do justice to the nitty-gritty of positive law.
Abstract: The assumption that global legal orders expose the inside/outside distinction as a contingent, state-bound feature of law is a particularly powerful manifestation of state-centred thinking about law, or so this paper argues. Whereas the distinction between domestic and foreign legal orders is indeed historically contingent, the closure that gives rise to the contrast between a collective’s own legal space and strange places is constitutive for any conceivable legal order, global or otherwise. Parallel considerations apply to the temporal, subjective, and material boundaries of legal orders. The paper considers some of the conceptual and normative implications of this insight for democracy in a global context.
The lecture will be chaired by Professor Harm Schepel, BSIS
Registration:
This event is free to attend.
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Venue
Wilson Room (3rd floor)
Brussels School of International Studies
University of Kent
Pleinlaan / Boulevard de la Plaine 5
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