COLLOQUIA AND CLINICAL PROGRAMS
Spring 2002 Hauser Colloquium
Globalization and Its Discontents Colloquium
(L05.3557)
Spring 2002
Professors Eleanor Fox & Benedict Kingsbury
Format: Colloquium (2 credits). Please note that "A" papers cannot be written in this course. The course does not meet the Legal Institutions writing requirement.
Description
At most sessions, NYU faculty or outside speakers will present papers on problems and opportunities raised by globalization in diverse fields. Through class discussion and writing assignments, students will consider such matters as: broad theoretical arguments for and against regulation by formal institutions; specific arguments for and against different regulatory models, ranging from self-regulation to enforcement backed by state power; the meanings and uses of such concepts as 'governance', 'civil society', 'democracy', 'rule of law' and 'accountability' in relation to global issues; interlocking and multi-level regulatory regimes; the demand for and prospects of international administrative law; relations between international and national law; the significance of sovereignty; rising inequality; and unmet demands for justice and fairness.
Materials
For most sessions, the speaker's paper will be made available via the course website about two weeks before that speaker's presentation. We will also use a reader, The Global Transformations Reader (ed. David Held and Anthony McGrew (Polity Press, 2000), which should be purchased from the bookstore. In addition, a set of photocopied materials will be used, providing additional materials relevant to each session that will supplement the speaker's paper: this set will be available on the shelves in VH-314 before classes start. This set contains materials organized on a week-by-week basis, together with a cover sheet noting relevant sections of The Global Transformations Reader, and a list of possible further reading for those considering writing a research paper on the particular topic. All students should read the materials for week 1 in this set before the first class, as the discussion will be based on them.
Reading Materials for Week 1
- ** Ethan B. Kapstein and Dimitri Landa, The Pluses and Minuses of Globalization, in Marc F. Plattner and Aleksander Smolar, eds., Globalization, Power and Democracy, p. 133 (2000);
- ** Robert O. Keohane, “Governance in a Partially Globalized World”, Presidential Address, American Political Association, 2000, 95 American Political Science Review 1 (2001);
- Phillip Allott, Eunomia, Preface to the Paperback Edition, p. vii-xl;
- Saskia Sassen, “The State and Economic Globalization: Any Implications for International Law?”, 1 Chi. J. Int’l L. 109 (2000).
** If time is short, focus on those two articles.
Supplementary Readings:
- David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, “Rethinking Globalization”, in David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds., The Global Transformation Reader (2000) [hereinafter, Reader], p. 54;
- Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, “Globalization – A Necessary Myth?”, in Reader, p. 68;
- Manuel Castells, “The Network Society”, in Reader, p. 76.
Program
(the list of commentators is incomplete; and the titles of papers may change)
Monday January 14:
1. Introduction to Globalization: Discontents, Justice, and Governance
Eleanor Fox and Benedict Kingsbury (teaching session: materials available in VH-314)
Monday January 21: No class (Martin Luther King Day)
Monday January 28:
2. The Kyoto Protocol and the Problems of Designing a Global Climate Change Regime
Richard B. Stewart (NYU)
Commentator: David Bradford (Princeton/NYU)
Monday February 4:
3. Global Governance and the Remaking of Post-Conflict Societies: The UN and Women in East Timor
Hilary Charlesworth (Australian National University/NYU)
Commentator: Philip Alston (NYU)
Monday February 11:
4. Why Antitrust Will Not Control Globalization
Eleanor Fox (NYU)
Commentator: Harry First (NYU)
Tuesday February 19 (Legislative Monday - no class Monday Feb 18):
5. Moral Universalism and the Priorities of Global Justice
Thomas Pogge (Columbia)
Commentator: Liam Murphy (NYU)
Monday February 25:
6. The Geology of International Law: Globalization and the Emergence of International Governance without Government
Joseph Weiler (NYU)
Monday March 4:
7. Globalization and Labor
Katherine Van Wezel Stone (Cornell)
Commentator: Sam Estreicher (NYU)
Monday March 11: No class (Spring Break)
Monday March 18:
8. Courts in International Governance
Philippe Sands (University College London/NYU)
Commentator: Karen Knop (University of Toronto/NYU)
Monday March 25:
9. International Human Rights and National Constitutional Democracy/ David Golove (NYU);
Commentator: Gerry Neuman (Columbia)
Monday April 1:
10. The G8 and the Rest/ Giuliano Amato (Rome/NYU)
Commentator: Joseph Weiler (NYU)
Monday April 8:
11. Globalization, Inequality, and the Global South
Andrew Hurrell (Oxford University)
Commentator: Justice Albie Sachs (Constitutional Court of South Africa) (to be confirmed)
Monday April 15:
12. Globalization and Local Government: Losing Control of Environment and Land Use Policy/ Vicki Been (NYU)
Commentators: Carol Rose (Yale/NYU) and Richard Briffault (Columbia/NYU)
Monday April 22:
13. Democratic Constitutionalism and the Enforcement of International Law by National Courts
Mattias Kumm (NYU)
Commentator: Rick Pildes (NYU)
Monday April 29:
14. Conclusion: Globalization: Discontents, Justice, and Governance
Eleanor Fox and Benedict Kingsbury (discussion of student papers)
