Mireille Delmas-Marty
Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalisation of Law
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Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law
Why this title?
The central theme of my research is the process of Internationalization of Law , on the regional as well the global level. To achieve harmonious internationalization, I have proposed a model which I call ordering pluralism . This model involves developing the relationship between International Law as a whole and Comparative Legal Studies to harmonize or hybridize different legal systems. My principal points of reference are European construction, which I compare to other regional constructions (most particularly in Latin America), and globalization. I have also been running research programs in China for the last twelve years.
Lecture topics
Criminal law/criminal procedure seems to me to be one of the primary bases upon which law is internationalized: European economic construction must comply with the protections offered by the European Convention on Human Rights, and an international criminal law is being developed by tribunals such as those for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. My lectures therefore focus on the interplay between national, regional and international norms as seen through the prism of the universalism of human rights on the one hand, and economic globalization on the other.
Course
Sense and Non Sense of Legal Humanism?
INTRODUCTION - BETWEEN MYTH AND UTOPIA- Humanism and "legal" humanism: birth and metamorphoses of the myth (5 January)
- From legal humanism to the humanization of rights: death and transfiguration (12 January)
I - LEGAL HUMANISM VERSUS GLOBALIZATION
- Tightening migration control (19 January)
- Aggravation of social exclusions (26 January)
- Multiplication of environmental damages (9 February)
- Persistence of the "most serious" international crimes (16 February)
- The ambivalence of new digital and biomedical technologies (23 February)
II - HUMANIZING GLOBALIZATION
- Integrate: initiatives to build a multi-layered citizenship (2 March)
- Empower: proposals on corporate social responsibility (16 March)
- Empower: proposals on shared social responsibility (23 March)
- Anticipate: milestones for linking generations and building sustainable peace (30 March)
- Synchronize: efforts at legal innovation versus technological innovations (6 April)
CONCLUSION - LAW IN THE MAKING FOR HUMANITY IN TRANSIT (11 May)
Symposium II
Hominization, humanization: the role of law
Two days
Thursday, 28 April 2011
9:30 a.m. Introduction: Law as a revealer of tensions between hominization and humanizations,
Mireille Delmas-Marty, Professor at the Collège de France
I. From hominization to humanization
- Epigenetic variability: creativity, indetermination, individuation; Jean-Pierre Changeux, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
- The relative and the universal in cognitive functions, Alain Berthoz, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
- Linguistic diversity and humanizations, Claude Hagège, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
II. Humanizations
2:30 p.m.
- Specificities, imperialisms and universalism in ancient Mesopotamia, Jean-Marie Durand, Professor at the Collège de France
- Heterogeneity of sources, diversity and universalism of biblical texts, Thomas Römer, Professor at the Collège de France
- Plurality of models of representation for nature/ culture, Philippe Descola, Professor at the Collège de France
Friday, 29 April 2011
III. The Impact of Biotechnologies
9:00 a.m.
- Man-animal chimeras, Alain Prochiantz, Professor at the Collège de France
- New modes of reproduction, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
- Post-humanization and/or de-humanization?, Marie-Angèle Hermitte, Research Director at the French national center for scientific research (CNRS), Director of studies at the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)
12:00 noon: Round Table: Law as a regulator of tensions between hominization and humanizations