Contesting Globalisation (Post-Brexit): King's College Transnational Law Institute Signature Lectures, 2016-17

Contesting Globalisation (Post-Brexit)
Examining Transnationalisation, Capitalism and Democracy in a Global Age
Transnational Law Institute Signature Lectures, 2016-17

The Brexit vote on 23 June 2016 and the spectre of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union have been labelled as one of the most momentous historical events in centuries. Its constitutional dimension is being debated far beyond the country’s borders, but so are the vote’s even deeper causes and origins. While some point to the growing frustration of UK citizens over an alleged loss of sovereignty, which is said to manifest itself in immigration numbers and herewith associated fiscal and economic burdens, others argue for a wider view.

From that perspective, Brexit has to be seen as an outcry against conditions of economic and political marginalization, and a state of precariousness in which the 99% finds itself today – in the UK and well beyond. Brexit, then, becomes an illustration of ‘globalisation and its discontents’, a long-overdue and, looking at the manifestations of public outcry in Greece, Spain, and elsewhere, an event less surprising than the post-vote news had made it out to be.

The first lecture is with Professor Guy Standing (SOAS) on Wednesday 12 October.

Please find below the list of lectures taking place in 2016-17, also on the TLI website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/tli/events/signature-series.aspx

 

Contesting Globalisation (post-Brexit)

Examining Transnationalism, Capitalism and Democracy in a Global Age

2016-2017 TLI Signature Lectures

THE BREXIT VOTE on 23 June 2016 and the spectre of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union have been labeled as one of the most momentous historical events in centuries. Its constitutional dimension is being debated far beyond the country’s borders, but so are the vote’s even deeper causes and origins. While some point to the growing frustration of UK citizens over an alleged loss of sovereignty, which is said to manifest itself in immigration numbers and herewith associated fiscal and economic burdens, others argue for a wider view. From that perspective, Brexit has to be seen as an outcry against conditions of economic and political marginalization, and a state of precariousness in which the 99% finds itself today – in the UK and well beyond. Brexit, then, becomes an illustration of ‘globalisation and its discontents’, a long-overdue and, looking at the manifestations of public outcry in Greece, Spain, and elsewhere, an event less surprising than the post-vote news had made it out to be. 

The 2016-2017 SIGNATURE LECTURES at the TRANSNATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE at King’s College London are delivered by some of the most renowned, critical minds in law and political science today. All lectures are public, but spaces are limited. Some of the Signature Lectures coincide with the Transnational Law Reading Laboratory, a monthly book seminar, featuring a concentrated discussion of new as well as seminal legal-theoretical and political scholarship. For dates and to RSVP, please visit the events page of the TLI website.

AUTUMN TERM LECTURES
Wednesday 12 October 2016, 18:00. SW1.18
Guy Standing, The Corruption of Capitalism
[Opening Keynote, Book Launch & Signing]

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30. SW 1.17
Daniel Drache, Post-Brexit and the Crisis of Trade Multilateralism: Heartbreak or Mess?

Wednesday 9 Nov. 2016, 16:30. Room TBA
Wolfgang Streeck, How Will Capitalism End?
[Book Launch & Signing]

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:30. SW 1.17
Jo Shaw, The End of Free Movement?

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 4:30. SW 1.17
Kenneth Armstrong, Brexit and Free Trades: Causes and Effects

Thursday 1 Dec. 2016, 16:30. G.73, FWB
Joseph Weiler, Title to be confirmed.

SPRING TERM LECTURES
Tuesday 24 January 2017, 18:15. Nash Lecture Theatre, King’s Building
Michele Everson, Title to be confirmed

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 18:00. SW1.17
Vivien Schmidt, Europe’s Crisis of
Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Numbers in the Eurozone

Wednesday 8 February 2017, 16:30. SW1.18
Cathryn Costello, Title to be confirmed

Wednesday 1 March 2017, 16:30. SW1.18
Antoine Vauchez, The Appeal of Independence: The EU’s Way of Political Authority (from genesis to crisis)

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 18:00, SW1.18
Takis Tridimas, Process and substance in the Brexit bargain: What does it mean to belong?