Boundaries of Law
The research program Boundaries of Law started in January 2010. The core questions of the program are:
- What kinds of domestic analogies are used to understand and assess the rise of legal regimes beyond the state?
- What are the limits of using concepts with domestic origins in contexts that fundamentally differ from the national, sovereign state? Is sovereignty still a valid concept in a globalizing world in which power seems to be dispersed? Has legal unity become an outdated ideal?
- Is it possible to make sense of recent developments in law by using concepts that were not originally tied to the existence of sovereign states, such as ´humanity´ or ´cosmopolitanism´?
- To what extent can the legal regimes beyond the state considered to be legitimate? Are the emerging regimes democratic and in accordance with the requirements of the Rule of Law? To what extent do new legal regimes question our traditional understanding of democracy and the Rule of Law?
There is a close link between the research in this program and the multidisciplinary master Law and Politics of International Security.
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