030437 KU Legal transfer and global power (2009W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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VB. 14.10. 18Uhr, Sem 64
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max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 19.01. 11:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM43 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 4.OG
- Wednesday 20.01. 11:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM43 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 4.OG
- Thursday 21.01. 11:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum SEM43 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, 4.OG
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Aims, contents and method of the course
The international transfer of legal concepts and principles is often interrelated with global power structures. From colonialism onwards, the global center has developed different forms and channels of legal influence on the periphery. The idea of the superiority of the so called West contrary to the backwardness of so called developing countries plays an important role in these processes. With reference to concrete examples of legal transplants in Latin America, we will discuss the different forms of legal influence, the transferred legal concepts, their political impact and their relation to global power. For further information see http://homepage.univie.ac.at/judith.schacherreiter/
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Examination topics
The discussion will take place on the basis of reading material which will be provided for at the department for comparative law. Students are supposed to write a paper of 5 pages discussing certain questions before Christmas. In course of the classes the same questions shall be discussed with reference these papers and the reading material. There will be no further exam. Participation in class is necessary. The grade depends on the paper and on oral contribution in class.
Reading list
Graziadei, Michele, Comparative Law as the study of transplants and receptions, in Reimann, Mathias and Zimmermann, Reinhard, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law, New York, 2006 p. 441-475
Kennedy, Duncan, Three globalizations of law and legal thought: 1850-2000, in Trubek, David, and Santos, Alvaro, The new Law and Economic Development. A critical appraisal, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2006, p. 19-73
Mattei, Ugo, Plunder. When the Rule of Law is Illegal (2008)
Mattei, Ugo, Why the Wind Changed: Intellectual Leadership in Western Law, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1994, p. 195-218
Miller, Jonathan, A Typology of Legal Transplants: Using Sociology, Legal History and Argentine Examples to Explain the Transplant Process, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 51, No. 4. 2003, p. 839-885
Watson, Alan, Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, Athens (Georgia), 1974, 2nd edition 1993
Young, Robert J. C., Postcolonialism. A Very Short Introduction (2003)
Kennedy, Duncan, Three globalizations of law and legal thought: 1850-2000, in Trubek, David, and Santos, Alvaro, The new Law and Economic Development. A critical appraisal, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2006, p. 19-73
Mattei, Ugo, Plunder. When the Rule of Law is Illegal (2008)
Mattei, Ugo, Why the Wind Changed: Intellectual Leadership in Western Law, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 42, No. 1, 1994, p. 195-218
Miller, Jonathan, A Typology of Legal Transplants: Using Sociology, Legal History and Argentine Examples to Explain the Transplant Process, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 51, No. 4. 2003, p. 839-885
Watson, Alan, Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, Athens (Georgia), 1974, 2nd edition 1993
Young, Robert J. C., Postcolonialism. A Very Short Introduction (2003)
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