Impact
In this short video, Professor Ingo Venzke and Dr Ivana Isailović introduce SGEL:
Summer School
The Summer School is a unique interdisciplinary, critical and inclusive space providing training and support for a new generation of legal scholars working on law, global political economy, climate change and social justice, while embedding Amsterdam in global dynamics such as its colonial history, and its present, and the fossil fuel economy. It has hosted scholars from India, Brazil, Italy, Poland, China, among others (main organizer: Ivana Isailović).
SGEL Lecture Series 2021-2024
Over the past 4 years, SGEL hosted a lecture series featuring an exceptional lineup of speakers covering a wide range of issue on law, political economy, social and climate justice in globalized contexts.
Many of the presentations are recorded and can be viewed on our youtube page.
For a full list of all of our past speakers, take a look here.
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2024
Here is a small selection of some of the work our researchers published in 2024.
de Boer, N.J.; van 't Klooster, J.M.; Grünewald, S.N. The law and politics of independent policy coordination: fiscal and sustainability considerations in the European Central Bank’s monetary policy. Kern Alexander & Seraina Grünewald (eds), Central Banking and Sustainability. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Burgers, L., Błaszczyk, C., Bernet-Kempers, E. Fenced Europe: A more-than-human perspective to border control: The case of Białowieża. European Law Open, April 2024
Cseres, K.J. Energy Consumer Law and Governance in Hungary. Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets . ed. / M. Czarnecka; T. Soliman Hunter; J. Malinauskaite; M. K Kraśniewski. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Cusato, E.; Jones, E. The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis. Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 37, No. 1, 03.2024, p. 42-61.
Eckes, C. Constitutionalising Climate Mitigation Norms in Europe. Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance Failures. ed. A. Steinbach; E.U. Petersmann. Brill Nijhoff, 2024.
Isailović , I. The Political Economy of Abortion Law in the EU, Law & Political Economy Blog, July 2024Gender in political economy and EU law. Transnational Legal Theory, 15(4), 525–542.
Leone, C. Who's afraid of sustainability? A primer for mainstreaming sustainability in private law education. Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability. ed. / M. Santos Silva; A. Nicolussi; C. Wendehorst; P.S. Coderch; M. Clément; F. Zoll. Routledge, 2024. p. 84-100Tagiuri, G. The socio-legal and critical potential of EU economic law. Transnational Legal Theory, 15(4), 629–652.
Wewerinke-Singh, M. Towards a Non-Use Regime on Solar Geoengineering: Lessons from International Law and Governance. Gupta, A.; Biermann, F.; Driel, E. van et al. Transnational Environmental Law, February 2024.
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2023
Bartl, M. Imaginaries of Prosperity as Constitutional Imaginaries. European Constitutional Imaginaries: Between Ideology and Utopia. ed. / J. Komárek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. p. 360-377.
Bogoeski, V. Nonwaivability of Labour Rights, Individual Waivers and the Emancipatory Function of Labour Law. In: Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1, 03.2023, p. 179–213.
Bose, D. Decentring narratives around business and human rights instruments: An example of the French devoir de vigilance law. In: Business and Human Rights Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, 02.2023, p. 18-42.
Cusato, E. Ecology in the war against Ukraine and beyond. In: ESIL Newsletter, Vol. 2023, No. Winter, 2, 2023.
Eckes, C. The Autonomy of EU Law: the Case of the Energy Charter Treaty. European Papers.
Ferrari, Valeria (Editor); Leiter, Andrea (Editor); Idelberger, Florian (Editor) et al. Log Out. A Glossary of Technological Resistance and Decentralization. Institute of Network Cultures, 2023.
Leone, C.; van Duin, J. Doubling down on debt? Legal responses to private debt as a business model in the Netherlands. Regulation of Debt Collection in Europe: Understanding Informal Debt Collection Practices. ed. / C.-G. Stănescu. London: Routledge, 2023. p. 116-137 (Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law).
Lorenzo, J.A.P, Differential Treatment and Inequalities under the Sustainable Development Goals: Beyond Preferential Market Access. In: Law and Development Review, 05.06.2023.
Venzke, I. & Isailovic, I. Law-Law-Land. A Conversation about International Law, Sustainability, and Solidarity. In: Arts of the Working Class, issue 26
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2022
Here's a selection of papers published in 2022 by some of the SGEL researchers.
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Green Deals & Social Justice - with Afronomics Law
AfronomicsLaw & SGEL partnered up for a symposium on Green Deals and Justice. The contributions brought together a diverse set of perspectives with essays from scholars from the Global South & the Global North. Convened by Ivana Isailović, Adebayo Majekolagbe, and Nona Tamale.
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Radical Imagining of ‘Just & Green’ Futures - with TWAIL Review & the art centre Mediamatic
In July 2022, Laura Burgers and Ivana Isailović organized an event at the arts centre Mediamatic in Amsterdam that provided a space to reflect on what just futures after the ‘green transition’ would look like by bringing together scholars, thinkers, and artists. Speakers were asked to reflect on what ‘just green futures’ meant to them, and what are the practices, knowledges, and laws that they think should be nurtured and adopted to make just green futures possible. TWAIL Review published these short essays based on the presentations, accompanied by drawings from artist Kyra Sacks.
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Arts of the Working Class
In 2023, TEGL (Transformative Effects of Globalisation in Law) partnered with the Arts of the Working Class, a multi-lingual street journal, to showcase some of the research happening in the project.
SGEL researchers that contributed essays include Johanna Lorenzo, Klaas Eller & Vladimir Bogoeski, Ingo Venzke, Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and a conversation on international law, sustainability and solidarity with Ingo Venzke & Ivana Isailović.
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Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law
In 2021, Ivana Isailović organised the conference, Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law: Shifts, Ruptures and Social Justice. The goal of the conference was to interrogate the role of global economic law in the simultaneous (re)production of gendered, racial and class-based inequalities, and environmental disasters, and how the concept of ‘sustainability’ can be (re)claimed to address social and environmental justice issues.
Education
Many SGEL researchers have set up innovative courses in line with SGEL lines of research across EU, international and private law LLMs and undergraduate programmes.
- a mandatory course in the EU law LLM program exploring the role of EU economic laws and policies in the climate and social crises, including sessions on the legal regulation of meat production and trade, during which students represented various actors’ interests — from animal welfare and environmental activists to meat industry lobbies — to define sustainable EU laws and policies. (convenor Ivana Isailović)
- Making Markets beyond the State course, where private lawyers cooperate with investment lawyers, bringing together students from Amsterdam, South Africa and Brazil in a global virtual classroom. (convenors Klaas Eller & Geraldo Vidigal)
- International Law and Sustainable Development course focusing on the role of international law for regenerating the earth’s ecosystem, featuring a hackathon/pressure-cooker: students choose a sustainable development goal and prepare a brief on how the UN Conference on Trade and Development should advance this goal. (convenors Ingo Venzke & Andrea Leiter)
- The interdisciplinary minor 'Law and Justice in the EU' asks students to reflect about the distributive effects of EU law, with a particular focus on EU economic law. Students learn to identify how EU law works and how it is shaped by values, interest groups, states, and geopolitical forces, biases and injustices within the law, to imagine a more sustainable EU law for the future. (convenor Giacomo Tagiuri)