Professor Nehal Bhuta to speak at Helsinki Summer Seminar on International Law
Sat 26 June 2021
Nehal Bhuta, Professor of Public International Law at Edinburgh Law School, will speak at the 32nd Helsinki Summer Seminar on 'TRANSNATIONAL LAW: New, Old, or Borrowed?', organised by the Erik Castrén Institute.
The seminar will take place virtually on 23 - 27 August 2021. The objective of the summer seminar of 2021 is to examine the actual or desirable content of the notion of “transnational law” especially from two perspectives. First, what is the analytical content of the notion? Does it add anything to such more firmly established fields as international, European or comparative law, for example? A second question has to do with its normative direction. It undoubtedly is an element in the internationalisation or globalisation of law and legal thinking. What are the effects of such developments and is it a good thing? What are the costs and benefits of thinking of law in a “transnational” fashion?
Confirmed speakers include:
- Nehal Bhuta (University of Edinburgh)
- Mariolina Eliantonio (University of Maastricht)
- Poul Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School)
- Jan Klabbers (University of Helsinki)
- Karen Knop (University of Toronto)
- Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)
- Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University of Helsinki)
- Mikael Rask Madsen (Univerity of Copenhagen)
On Wednesday 25 August, Nehal Bhuta will present 'Is there a Transnational Legal Order? – What could a Transnational Legal Order Be?', and will also join a conversation with Mikael Rask Madsen with Jan Klabbers. Nehal will also present on Friday 27 August.
The seminar programme for the summer seminar 2021 has now been published, register for this event now.