Call for papers ESIL Interest Group on International Economic Law extended until 23 April 2012
The conference programme will be packed with formal and less formal events that will stimulate debate and challenge perspectives throughout a range of international law subjects.
Why Regionalism?
For better or for worse, Europe has historically been the centre of the world from the modern era onwards, creating different peripheries that were required to adopt European faiths, social organisation and legal systems. The influence of Europe in the other continents is an historical fact that deserves to be revisited from a legal point of view. So too, ‘feedback’ from the other regions about Europe and its approach to international law, if there is any, needs to be examined.
Spain —again, for better or for worse— has had an influence on these regional perspectives. This is one of the reasons why regionalism was chosen as the theme of the Biennial Conference in Valencia. Another reason is that regionalism, from a legal perspective, revisits one of the leitmotifs of ESIL, i.e. the unity and fragmentation of current international law. We have already discussed this from a specialisation perspective, from a purely theoretical perspective and from a judicial perspective. A regional perspective will now be added to ESIL’s research acquis.
Rather than a ‘horizontal’ view and analysis of regionalism, the conference looks at regionalism from different viewpoints in order to assess the existence of new centres and peripheries. The focus shifts from economic development to access to technology, from new generations of human rights to the immaterial concepts of groups and ethnicity, as well as taking other variables into account, in order to foster new approaches to regionalism and its impact on international law. Hence, along with two keynote speakers, there are eight fora and eight agorae where we will be discussing so many different aspects of regionalism that we believe a complete 360-degree view of the subject will be provided.
In addition, the seven ESIL Interest Groups will meet on Thursday morning, as will the editors of leading International Law journals. On Saturday morning, ESIL will hold its General Assembly.
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