SGEL Spring Lecture Series 2022
Join us for the SGEL Spring Lecture Series for inspiring conversations on global economic law, sustainability & social justice! More details and registration on our Events page. www.sgel.uva.nl
New Thinking on Globalization and Law
19 January, 12:00-13:00 Please join us for the first TEGL roundtable “New Thinking on Globalization and Law” during which TEGL community’s members will present their research and ongoing projects on law and globalization. To launch this roundtable series, principal investigators from each law school from the TEGL Sectorplan will give an overview of the themes …
Transparency and Participation in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty
27/28 January 2022 The EU Treaties contain a clear call for an open, transparent and regular dialogue between EU institutions and bodies, and representative associations and civil society. Although openness and its corollaries of transparency and participation are foundational values of the EU, theoretical and practical challenges still persist and hamper the effective fulfilment of …
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The Transformative Law of Political Economy in Europe: Mobilizing Legal Institutional Imagination
27-28 January 2022 Organised by Klaas Eller (UvA), Poul F. Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School) , Anna Beckers (Maastricht University) Different strands of recent legal scholarship in Europe and beyond take law as constitutive for economic modes of production and reject the idea of ‘the market’ following a predetermined trajectory to which law is (mostly) external. …
Judicial control of Administrative Cooperation in Tax Matters, Taxpayers’ Rights and the Notion of “Foreseeable Relevance” in light of the CJEU’s case law
Webinar, 8 February 2022, 14:00-17:00cet Organizers:Mariolina Eliantonio and Marina Serrat Romani, Maastricht University The aim of the event is to reflect, from a holistic perspective, on the evolution of the case law of the CJEU from Berlioz I to the recent État du Grand-duché de Luxembourg v L case from both a substantive tax law and a more …
Sensing Practices & Representations of More-than-human Worlds
17-18 March 2022 Jointly organized by: Dr. Marie Petersmann (Tilburg University) m.c.petersmann@tilburguniversity.edu Dr. Andrea Leiter (University of Amsterdam) a.b.leiter@uva.nl Abstract This conference is the culmination of a series of events on ‘Theory Hacks’ that took place over 2021 to facilitate discussions between legal researchers specialized in the environmental and digital humanities and tech-developers who participated …
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Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law: Shifts, Ruptures and Social Justice
16-17 December 2021 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, …
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Compliance, Liability and Sanctioning
A report from the panel, ”Compliance, Liability and Sanctioning” that took place as part of the TEGL conference, 16/17 September 2021 Written by Sjors Polm The COVID-19 pandemic poses great challenges, and humanity’s track record in addressing these challenges has not been particularly impressive so far. The panel on compliance, liability and sanctioning discussed different …
Call for Applications
Dec. 17, 2021, 10-12pm and 3-4:30pm. Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law? Shifts, Ruptures and Social Justice What should a ‘sustainable global economic law’ (SGEL) look like, in a context of looming ecological catastrophe, wild levels of inequality and wealth concentration, continuous technological disruption, and strong demands for social, racial, gender and environmental justice? On …
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Netherlands: towards mandatory human rights due diligence legislation
The conference ‘Corporate Social Responsibility in the Netherlands: towards mandatory human rights due diligence legislation’ will take place on 12 November 2021 at the The Hague Humanity Hub. The regulation of multinational corporations, especially in situations of negative impact, poses challenging questions. Current developments show a transformation of voluntary and sector driven guidelines into legally …