Professor Peer Zumbansen, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Economic Governance and Legal Theory, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

These institutes will focus on the role of law and its interaction with other disciplines in the context of conceptualizing, researching, and teaching global governance. The 2011 institute will be geared towards an interdisciplinary analysis of global governance with a particular emphasis on law's place in an evolving transnational regulatory landscape. While placing legal institutions, actors, and norms at the center of the inquiry, the 2011 session will examine governance approaches not only in law but in economics, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and geography. In addition, participants will explore global governance from a legal regulatory viewpoint through "mirror" perspectives on domestic and international regulatory institutions and processes.

The 2012 institute will reframe the comprehensive panorama developed in 2011 from the angle of alternative accounts of globalization, global governance, and a just global order. Drawing on scholarship and expertise from the "global south," the 2012 session will study contesting approaches to "Western" and "Northern" globalization narratives. It will critique the viewpoints and expertise called upon to identify, frame, and design theories of development, growth, and justice.

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http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/sias/worldsociety.htm