Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Announcing Conference: Brussels Global Law Week

From 15 to 19 of May 2017, the Perelman Centre will run the third edition of the Brussels Global Law Week. The conference concept note states

Reuniting theory and practice, the Brussels Global Law Week is an annual forum open to academics, researchers, students, NGOs, legal practitioners, regulators and decision-makers to discuss issues of law & globalization. Each year, special attention will be drawn to both research in global and transnational legal theory and practical issues in specific sectors. The short 2017 programme is attached hereby.

My thanks to the excellent job of the organizing committee:

Prof. Benoît Frydman, Université libre de Bruxelles
Prof. Gregory Lewkowicz, Université libre de Bruxelles
Prof. Hugues Pirotte, Université libre de Bruxelles
Prof. David Restrepo Amariles, HEC Paris & Université libre de Bruxelles
Prof. Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, HEC Paris & Université libre de Bruxelles
Tilen Cuk, Université libre de Bruxelles
Joséphine Woronoff, Université libre de Bruxelles

For those interested in attending Registration is mandatory to attend the Brussels Global Law Week. Places are limited. Please register on EventBrite here. Attendance is free of charge for speakers and for faculty, staff & students of the Université libre de Bruxelles and KULeuven. Registration fee is € 250 for the whole week. The daily rate is € 75. Please contact philodroit(at)ulb.ac.be. The fee is not refundable. Students and foreign participants may apply for a reduced fee by email. The registration fee includes admission to the Brussels Global Law Week, admission to the cocktail, lunches, coffee, tea and water during the breaks. Please see the brochure attached for further practical information concerning your stay, accommodation and transport.

Most of the interventions will take place at Solbosch Campus ULB, av. Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles.

The 2017 Programme follows

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About this Site:

At the end of the day, law?

. . . . Emperors and kings

Are but obeyed in their several provinces,

Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds;

But his domain that exceeds in this

Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.

A sound magician is a mighty god.

* * *

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,

That sometimes grew within this learned man.

Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

To practise more than heavenly power permits.

Christopher Marlowe, "Dr. Faustus" (before 1593)

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Globalization Law and Policy Series from Ashgate Publishing

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Globalization: Law and Policy will include an integrated body
of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series will focus on the consequential effects of globalization, including emerging frameworks and processes for the internationalization, legal harmonization, juridification and democratization of law among increasingly connected political, economic, religious, cultural, ethnic and other functionally differentiated governance communities. This series is intended as a resource for scholars, students, policy makers and civil society actors, and will include a balance of theoretical and policy studies in single-authored volumes and collections of original essays.

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