Place:
SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy
Room: 3.3380
Mary-Somerville-Straße 3
28359 Bremen
Time:
12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Organization:
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Haunss
Cooperation:
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Universität Bremen
Lecture Series:
Jour Fixe
Semester:
WiSe 2017/18

Using the example of environmental norms appearing in trade agreements, James Hollway develops an analysis of legal innovation based on a complex adaptive systems perspective and network theory. With this he can show that legal innovation is mainly an endogenous process and that contrary to prevailing wisdom, power asymmetries are less relevant.