This course proposes to explore the potential of the law of the conflict of laws to provide an alternative framework with which to approach alterity in nature and society ‘on the terms of the law'. Such an exploration requires an unearthing of a forgotten, shadow jurisprudence and by the same token, a change in modern law's deeper epistemological settings.
Horatia MUIR WATT,Eléna DIVRY
Séminaire
English
The course requires a thorough preparation of the class materials every week and to respond to a weekly blog question covering the readings. Students will also be invited to start working regularly on their group project from the start of the semester.
To have followed an initial instruction (M1 level) in private international law, crossborder litigation or international civil procedure (or to be ready to catch up on M1 level materials).
Autumn 2023-2024
Each student will have 2 grades, one for individual work, one for teamwork. Each is worth 50% of the total assessment. Individual work comprises 5 written contributions to the class blog and oral class participation on the basis of the readings provided. Teamwork will be carried out on an approved topic in a choice of written or other performative modes (according to the instructions given in class).
Interactive.
EITHER - H. Muir Watt,: Discours sur les méthodes du droit international privé (des formes juridiques de l'interaltérité), Recueil des Cours de l'Académie de la Haye, 2018.
OR - H. Muir Watt, Ecological Jurisprudence and the Nomos of the In-Between: Aesthetic and Ontological Dimensions of Cross-Border Legality., Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Ernst Rabel Lecture 2022: 7 November 2022