Wednesday–Thursday, May 13–14, 2015

UC Irvine School of Law, LAW 3500 (Map)

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This symposium assesses and evaluates the extent of change in private law and business regulation that transcends the nation state. Such law and regulation seek to produce order in an issue area that relevant actors construe as a problem. These problems range from labor rights of garment workers to food safety; to securities fraud and financial crises; to corporate social responsibility; to the allocation of authority among courts to hear transnational disputes. The legal norms adopt various legal forms and they vary in their formally binding nature. The legal norms are transnational insofar as they transcend and permeate state boundaries, since the problems are deemed difficult or impossible to address by a single nation state. National legislatures often do not play a central role in many of these areas.

The symposium evaluates developments in these areas, and the challenges and limits various initiatives face. The symposium brings leading legal theorists and empirical scholars from different countries into dialogue. The participants will engage, in particular, with the theoretical lens of “transnational legal orders” as elaborated in the new book by Terence Halliday and Gregory Shaffer, Transnational Legal Orders (Cambridge University Press 2015).

Featured Presenters

• Alexia Brunet Marks, Colorado
• Hannah Buxbaum, Indiana
• Larry Catá Backer, Penn State
• Terence Halliday, American Bar Foundation
• Ralf Michaels, Duke
• Gregory Shaffer, UC Irvine
• Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall
• Christopher Whytock, UC Irvine
• Cynthia Williams, Osgoode Hall
• Peer Zumbansen, King’s College London

To request reasonable accommodations for a disability,
please contact Mohammed Ali at mali@law.uci.edu

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