CGG Lecture Series: Contestation, Knowledge, Practice: Contributions to the Debate in Global Governance, Constitutionalism and World Society

Mi. 17. Dezember 2014, 18:00 c.t. Uhr
ESA-1, Hörsaal C, Edmund-Siemers-Allee-1

New Approaches to International Financial Regulation:
What Legal Scholars and Policymakers Can Learn from
Critical and Anthropological Studies of Knowledge,
Contestation and Practice

Professor Annelise Riles, Cornell University Law School, USA

What has happened to scholarship on international financial regulation since the global financial crisis? This paper maps out core debates suggestive of the new intellectual terrain that emerged out of the global financial meltdown. I argue that the old-consensus in neoclassical economic theory has given way to a new mainstream institutionalist legal literature, which I term the Reformist approach. This post-crisis shift of focus parallels developments in the fields of international political economy, and law and development. I argue that this Reformist literature could benefit from further engagement with what I term the “New Approaches” literature in international legal theory and in the anthropology and social studies of finance.

Annelise Riles is the Jack G. Clarke Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell, and she serves as Director of the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture. Her work focuses on the transnational dimensions of laws, markets and culture across the fields of comparative law, conflict of laws, the anthropology of law, public international law and international financial regulation. Her most recent book, Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets (Chicago Press 2011) is based on ten years of fieldwork among regulators and lawyers in the global derivatives markets. Her recently published article Managing Regulatory Arbitrage: A Conflict of Laws Approach in the Cornell International Law Journal in June 2014 explores what conflict of laws can contribute to global financial regulation.

CGG Lecture Series: Contestation, Knowledge, Practice: Contributions to the Debate in Global Governance, Constitutionalism and World Society

Mi. 10. Dezember 2014, 18:00 c.t. Uhr
ESA-1, Hörsaal C
Edmund-Siemers-Allee-1

Experimental Governance: Lessons from the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

Dr. Christian Bueger, Cardiff University, UK

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has been successfully contained. A core role in this success story has been an informal global governance arrangement, the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia. This presentation discusses the practices of governance the group has developed to coordinate and steer the fight against piracy. Based on two years of ethnographic observations and a practice theoretical framework, the group is described as a form of “experimental governance”. Drawing on a range of empirical stories, the concept of experimental governance is discussed in detail and a range of lessons for other issue areas sketched out.

Christian Bueger is Reader in International Relations at Cardiff University. He is currently the principal investigator of the research project Counter-Piracy Governance – A Praxiographic Analysis. His research focusses on maritime security, international organization, international practice theory, the sociology of knowledge production and methodology. He is currently co-editor of the Worlding Beyond the West book series (Routledge), and associate editor of the forthcoming European Journal of International Security (Cambridge). His most recent publications include International Practice Theory: New Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, with Frank Gadinger), and Pathways to Practice: Praxiography and International Politics (European Political Science Review). Further information is available at http://bueger.info.