Jour Fixe of the SOCIUM

Lectures in the winter semester 2017/18.

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.
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Lecture Series:
Jour Fixe
Semester:
WiSe 2017/18

17.01.2018Lecture

How do Environmental Norms Enter the Trade Regime? A Network-Theoretical Perspective

Prof. Dr. James Hollway (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
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.
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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.

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.
Cooperation:
Lecture Series:
Jour Fixe
Semester:
WiSe 2017/18