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Conference Announcement
Theme: Global Economic Justice
Type: Justitia Amplificata Conference
Institution: Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies,
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg
Location: Bad Homburg (Germany)
Date: 10.–11.7.2014
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The global and transnational justice debate has started to move beyond
theoretical ground clearing and toward evaluating specific
transnational institutions, international agreements and global
practices. This conference seeks to contribute to this difficult task
by considering practical questions of global and trans-national
economic justice.
The conference will concentrate on normative assessments of global,
transnational and international practices that impact production,
consumption, the division of labour, productivity and the
distribution of income and wealth, as well as control over these
factors. We will structure the conference around three panels. The
panels are listed below along with examples of possible topics. The
examples are non-exhaustive: we are keen to receive papers on any
aspect of the three central themes.
Global Finance:
- Questions of justice and fairness in international debt repayment,
cancelation and conditionality, including issues concerning foreign
funded bail-outs and the justice of relations between those bailed
out and those financing the bail-out.
- The significance of the free movement of capital and its effect on
the abilities of states to determine social policy.
Trade Justice:
- Questions about transnational trade, including normative
assessments of Free Trade Agreements, investor protection and the
enforcement of such agreements.
- Normative assessments of the use of economic sanctions and
embargoes, including the conditions in which such measures may
legitimately be used.
Labour and Economic Rights:
- Should basic economic rights and freedom be considered Human
rights?
- Do labour conditions in poorer states violate basic rights?
- Who is responsible for the injustice of poor and dangerous
working conditions?
Confirmed speakers: Mathias Risse, Robert Howse, Miriam Ronzoni,
Seumas Miller, Catherine Lu, Nicole Hassoun, Jiewuh Song, Bas van der
Vossen, Peter Dietsch, Elizabeth Kahn and Gabriel Wollner.
Justitia Amplificata ("Rethinking Justice - Applied and Global") is a
Centre for Advanced Studies (Kolleg-Forschergruppe) at the
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, funded by the German
Research Foundation (DFG).
Conference Organisers:
Elizabeth Kahn, Jahel Queralt Lange, Jiewuh Song
Directors:
Stefan Gosepath and Rainer Forst
To register contact:
Valérie Bignon: [email protected]
Contact:
Valérie Bignon
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Campus Westend – PEG Gebäude
Hauspostfach 12
Grüneburgplatz 1
D-60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Email: [email protected]
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