What should ‘sustainable global economic law’ (SGEL) look like in the context of looming ecological catastrophe, wild levels of inequality and wealth concentration, and strong demands for social, racial and gender and environmental justice? Law provides the very infrastructure that sustains capitalism, which is inextricably linked to politically-sanctioned, large-scale destruction of nature, expropriation and the production of inequalities, and yet law is also needed to address historical disadvantages and social exclusion, protect planetary resources and constrain public and private power.
The goal of this conference is to interrogate the role of global economic law–a myriad of interlocking public/private, domestic/international legal regimes which together structure the global economy–in the simultaneous (re)production of gendered, racial and class-based inequalities, and environmental disasters, and how the concept of ‘sustainability’ can be (re)claimed to address social and environmental justice issues.
December 16-17, 2021
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