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The conference is one of a series of pilot initiatives at Brown as we consider whether and how to make research into global governance, law and social thought a more central part of our work at the Watson Institute.
Our intuition is that global governance and global inequality are very poorly understood. The traditional disciplines of law, social science and the humanities have each attempted to grapple with these issues often in relative isolation from each other. Our thought is to bring new thinking from each of these fields about the nature of global governance into sustained conversation with one another. We hope to develop innovative and alternative ideas about global governance and new ways to address pressing global issues.
Our conference this June will bring together a rising generation of younger scholars, as well as established academics and leading thinkers interested in global governance from around the world to engage with one another and to discuss current thinking in the fields of law, social science and humanities. We will focus on questions such as the following:
How are we governed at the global level? Where are the levers of public and private power? Is the world order a system – or something much more ad hoc? How are inequalities and structures of domination reproduced?
What does law have to do with any of this? Is the world order “constituted?” How does law contribute to the distribution of power, status and wealth? How is law implicated in political economy?
If you are an intellectual on the periphery of the world system, what could you do to change things? How might law be useful?