Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Workshop:
‘Socializing Economic Relationships - New Perspectives and Methods for
Analysing Transnational Risk Regulation’
Thursday, 15th to Friday, 16th of April 2010 a the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University, UK
The purpose of this international and multi-disciplinary workshop is to stimulate debate about innovative forms of regulating transnational economic and social risks. It thereby links to current public policy debates about causes of and solutions to the financial crisis.
The starting point for the workshop are the insights of Karl Polanyi’s work, an
economic historian, who in the early 1940’s set out in his book ‘The Great Transformation’ a powerful critique of market liberalism and its belief in the self-regulation of economic activity both in a national and global context.
In particular, the workshop will address four sets of questions:
- should economic relationships be embedded in social relations, and if so how can this
be achieved? - can markets be regulated by private actors? - a theme less explored in Polanyi’s work.
- do global economic and social interdependencies promote or hinder the integration of economic into social relationships?
- what methodological challenges are posed by the decline of the nation state in transnational risk regulation?
Co-ordinators: Bettina Lange, Oxford University and Dania Thomas, Keele University
The workshop is supported by the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association.
Themes for panels include:
‘Corporate Governance: The Relevance of Identity, Culture and Community’
‘International Finance: Relocating the “Social”’,
‘Civil Society Actors and Transnational Risk Regulation: The Challenge of Accountability’
‘Emotions and Regulation’
Speakers include:
Professor Mitchel Y. Abolafia, University at Albany, US, ‘The Institutional Embeddedness of Market Failure: Why Speculative Bubbles Still Occur’
Professors Mitu Gulati and Mark Weidemeier, Duke Law Faculty, US: ‘Lawyer Stories’.
Professor Paddy Ireland, Kent University ‘The Collapse of the Neoliberal Vision: Pension Privatization, Financial Property and the Idea of Ownership Societies’
Dr. Petrina Schiavi, Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University, ‘Trust and Legal Regulation’
Gary Wilson, Nottingham Trent University, UK, ‘From Black Box to Glocalised Player?
Corporate Personality in the 21st Century and the Limits of Law’s Regulatory Reach’
Dr. Lorraine Talbot, Warwick University, ‘Shareholder Entitlement, Primacy, and Empowerment’
Dr. Dania Thomas, School of Law, Keele University, UK: ‘From Allied to Argentina: Revisiting Property in Sovereign Debt’
The fee for participants at the workshop who do not present a paper is £ 185.
This covers the cost of one night stay in new purpose built accommodation at Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford University, the 3 course conference dinner with wine/soft drinks and 2 lunches as well as tea/coffee during morning and afternoon breaks. We regret that we can not fund travel costs.
Conference Booking and Accommodation
The fee for participants at the workshop who do not present a paper is £ 185. This covers the cost of one night stay in new purpose built accommodation at Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford University.
The College is a 20 minute walk away from the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and located at the edge of Oxford University Park.
A map to Lady Margaret Hall can be found here.
The conference fee of £ 185 also includes the 3 course conference dinner with wine and 2 lunches as well as tea/coffee during morning and afternoon breaks.
We regret that we can not fund travel costs.
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