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Sustainable Global Economic Law SGEL

Impact

Ecological and social justice are the heart of sustainable economic legal practices. Over the past four years the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) research project has deepened our understanding of how global economic law regulates the economy to legitimize unsustainable practices, and what it can do to address them. It has done so through SGEL members' research, legal education renewals, high-profile international events, and collaboration with international and domestic legal networks. SGEL members work on a variety of cross-disciplinary issues from transnational climate litigation, the crises of care and gender inequalities, food governance, new technology, to new ways of thinking about economic law.

Flagship Projects

Summer School
  • 2024

    The 2024 Summer School focused on bridging critical legal conversation on law, political economy, sustainability and legal practice. It gathered emerging scholars from India, Brazil, Poland and Italy - among others - working on family law, international investment and competition law, property law and sustainable finance in relation to ecological and social breakdowns.

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  • 2023

    The 2023 Summer School featured thematic sessions exploring the links between law, sustainability and environmental justice, and the meanings of ‘just transitions'.

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  • 2022

    The 2022 summer school created a unique space for interdisciplinary conversations on global economic law and sustainability, in the context of accelerating climate change, and the persistence of socio-economic inequalities. 

    Here are some of the themes covered:

    • the divides between social and environmental justice 
    • intersectionality as legal method(s) and practice(s)
    • sustainable global markets & the links between the economy, gender, race and culture
    • (re) imagining sustainable futures 

SGEL is part of the Sectorplan 'Transformative Effects of Globalization in Law' a research project gathering four Dutch law faculties - Open University, Tilburg, Maastricht and UvA - that explores what a sustainable legal globalization entails. More about TEGL, here.