Centers & Programs

The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, established by Professor Weiler, fosters cutting-edge scholarship on issues of international, European, and other regional law and policy with a particular emphasis on issues of regional and global governance and on social and economic justice. The Center focuses its efforts in two intellectual arenas. The first is the European Union, its institutions, policies, and legal system — the Center is already the leading location in North America for a critical exploration of European law and the future of the European Union. The second arena is the broader universe of international and regional economic law. The Center participates in the ongoing academic and political debate about globalization by exploring both the virtues and vices of globalization and its attendant legal regimes. Exploring the tensions between the legal disciplines of free trade and competing social and human values, as well as national sovereignty is at the core of the Center’s academic mission. The Center sponsors the weekly Jean Monnet Seminar, with a different focus each year, on topics such as international law and democracy or the United States and the use of force.

For more information, visit the Jean Monnet Center website.

 

         

We invite you to visit two new websites: Global Law Books www.globallawbooks.org and European Law Books www.europeanlawbooks.org. On these websites, you will find reviews of books published in the fields of European and regional integration, international law and economics, and the broader field of global economic, regulatory and cultural integration. We hope that these sites will facilitate your efforts to remain current on the state of the literature on the European Union, Global Law and international trade. We also hope that they will help identify, clarify and shape some of the current debates in this area of the law.