Globalisation & Law Network
The Globalisation & Law Network is composed by a group of researchers of Maastricht University, coming from different backgrounds, who study the role that law plays in a globalizing society from a holistic perspective. We are interested in understanding how globalization is challenging legal systems, the societal consequences of these changes, and how legal actors and instruments should be adapted to respond to these challenges.
Globalisation & Law Network brings together scholars working in different fields of law - administrative, constitutional, criminal, private, tax - and focusing on different levels of governance - international, EU, national - in order to tackle a number of overarching research questions from several angles.
Studying globalisation
from several angles.
Meet the Globalisation & Law Network
Research
Globalisation & Law Network aims at studying the changing role of law in a globalising society, and, in particular, how globalisation is challenging the potential of the law to regulate, protect and solve disputes.
Our Research focuses on two main themes:
1. Legitimacy issues created by Globalisation and
2. Judicial Protection and Conflict Resolution.
Read more about Globalisation & Law Network's research
View Globalisation & Law Network’s publications
Globalisation & Law Network’s research is part of the Law Faculty research programme and
its members belong to various research institutes.
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The Globalisation & Law Network organised a roundtable on Circular Economy and Trade, promoting a discussion about circular economy regulations in the European Union and Brazil.
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On 20 March 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network hosted the seminar featuring Professor Jacob Öberg (University of Southern Denmark).
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On 7 March 2024, Dr. Juan Auz Vaca, Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University, gave a compelling talk entitled "The Political Ecology of Climate Remedies in Latin America and the Caribbean" at the seminar hosted by the Globalisation & Law Network.
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On 28 February 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network hosted a research seminar featuring Dr Michael Veale, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at University College London.
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The Globalisation & Law Network is honoured to present the interactive video highlighting its objectives and main activities.
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On 22 February 2024, the Globalisation & Law Network had the privilege of hosting Dr. Virginia Passalacqua, Assistant Professor of EU Law at the University of Turin (Italy).
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How is the EU responding to the evolving landscape of consumer law in the face of digitalization and climate crisis? On 6 February 2024, the Globalization & Law Network had the privilege to discuss these issues with Dr. Vanessa Mak, Professor of Civil Law at Leiden University.
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On 30 January 2024, the Globalization & Law Network had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Simona Demková, Assistant Professor in EU law at Leiden University. During the seminar, Simona presented her project focused on the EU’s human-centered digital transformation and funded by the Leiden University...
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On January 17, 2024, the Globalization & Law Network had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ivana Isailović, Assistant Professor of EU law at the University of Amsterdam.
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On 13 December 2023, the Globalization & Law Network hosted a talk by Dr Caroline Omari Lichuma, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg. Caroline presented her recent paper titled ‘Extraterritorializing Control Through the Regulation of Global Value Chains: Ensuring the Resilience...
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On 7 December 2023, the Globalization & Law Network had the pleasure of hosting a seminar with Dr. Panu Minkkinen, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
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On 30 November 2023, the Globalization and Law Network had the pleasure to host Prof. Klabbers, who presented his paper entitled 'The Business of International Organizations’, which is related to the PRIVIGO project sponsored by the European Research Council.
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On 28 November 2023, the Globalization & Law Network held a seminar featuring Dr Luigi Lonardo (University College Cork).
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On 11 October 2023, we had the pleasure to host Dr Ane Aranguiz, Assistant Professor of European Labour and Social Security Law at Tilburg University. Aranguiz discussed her current research on “Combating social exclusion in the EU, what role for EU law?”, with Dr. Fulvia Ristuccia, Assistant...
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On 27 September 2023, the Globalization & Law Network hosted Chiara Armeni, Professor of Environmental Law at Université Libre de Bruxelles, who presented her paper entitled “Inequalities and environmental justice in the EU climate transition”.
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The Globalization & Law Network is pleased to present its first newsletter covering the first half of 2023.
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On Wednesday, May 24, 2023, the latest of our Globalization and Law Network Seminars took place at the Law Faculty. Joining us online, Dr. Signe Rehling Larsen, from University of Oxford, talked about her recent publication and current research on Empire and Public law and more specifically, the...
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On 19 April 2023, during the latest seminar organized by the Globalization & Law Network, Dr Floris de Witte (London School of Economics and Political Science) presented his paper, ‘Here be Dragons: Legal geography and EU law’. Carlo Colombo and Matteo Bonelli acted as discussants.
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On 12 April 2023, the Globalization & Law Network Seminar had the pleasure to host Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin (Cambridge University), who gave a talk entitled ‘The Consent of International Organizations in the Making of General and Conventional Rules of International Law’.
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On 28 March 2023, the Globalisation and Law Network had the pleasure to have Prof. Ramses Wessel, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, at Maastricht University. During the seminar, which was organized in collaboration with the Maastricht Center for European Law (MCEL)...
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On 13 March 2023, the latest Globalization & Law seminar took place. We had the pleasure to listen to prof. Patricia Popelier speak about her ongoing research on “Trust in Multi-Tiered Systems”. Dr Šejla Imamović acted as a discussant.
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Doctrine, documents, data – this is the trinity which Anna Beckers will analyse in her ERC-funded project CHAINLAW. The project will lay the foundation for developing a regulatory framework in response to the socio-economic institutions that make up global value chains. Her holistic approach will...
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After short Christmas break, the Globalization and Law Network (GLaw-Net) resumed its bi-weekly seminars with invited experts who study the role of law in a globalizing world.
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On 23 November 2022, the GLobalization & Law Network held the hybrid seminar featuring Lucas Carlos Lima, Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University Federal of Minas Gerais, Brazil. During the seminar, Professor Lima presented his paper “Is the IACtHR advancing the notion...
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The faculty welcomes the excellent news that our colleague Anna Beckers has been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant for her research project on "CHAINLAW, Responsive Law for Global Value Chains". We like to congratulate Anna Beckers!
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On 15 and 16 April 2021, the GLaw Research Network held the online workshop ‘Article 47 of the EU Charter and effective judicial protection: The Court of Justice’s perspective’. The two-day workshop has brought together the authors of the first of two volumes edited by Mariolina Eliantonio, Matteo...
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On 18 March 2021, Henrique Marcos, Dr Antonia Waltermann, and Prof Dr Jaap Hage (Foundations and Methods of Law, Faculty of Law, UM) presented their paper "From Sovereignty to International Cooperation: Lessons from Legal Logic and Social Ontology" at the 10th Annual Cambridge International Law...
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Why would environmental damage in Nigeria be litigated in The Hague, The Netherlands? Or a worldwide Volkswagen “Dieselgate” in Amsterdam? Are Dutch courts better equipped to deal with complex litigation arising out of multinationals’ activities? Against the backdrop of recent Dutch case law, the...
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Dr Matteo Bonelli has become the winner of the UM Dissertation Prize for his thesis "A Union of Values: Safeguarding Democracy, the Rule of Law and Human Rights in the EU Member States".
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Summary of online research seminars held by the Globalisation & Law Network in the academic year 2019 - 2020.
Globalisation & Law Network Seminar Series
Globalisation & Law Network Events
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31 May13:30 - 15:30
Jean Monnet EU Migration Law and Governance Lecture Series
On 31 May, our speaker is Tesseltje de Lange, Professor of European Migration Law, Centre for Migration Law at Radboud University Nijmegen.
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03 Jun 04 Jun12:30 - 15:00
The “transnational” dimension of EU environmental legislation and its operationalization at the national level
The focus of this workshop is on cases in which EU environmental legislation generates situations which, in the definition provided in the paragraph above, are transnational in nature. The workshop will have the two-fold aim to, first, identify transnational situations in the main legal acts...
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12 Jun 13 Jun00:00
Recharacterising International Disputes: Exploring the Phenomenon of Multi-Fora Litigation
The global landscape has seen an uptick in the utilization of international and regional courts, with a broader set of norms and circumstances now subject to adjudication. This pattern raises questions about the reasons behind such recharacterization, the appropriate methods for judicial bodies to...
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28 Jun14:30 - 16:30
The Day after Public.Resource.Org v Commission: A New Era for the Openness and Copyright of Standards Referenced in EU Law?
This hybrid discussion will explore the judgment’s effects on the degree of openness of standards referenced in EU law, as well as on the copyrights held by standardisation organisations. Similarly, it will reflect on its practical ramifications for the European Standardisation System and its actors...
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30 Oct 31 Oct09:00 - 17:00
Narratives, Frontier Technologies & the Law
The conference will feature high-quality scholarly perspectives and theoretical investigations into the relationship or correlation between Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law, with the objective of providing valuable insights for international legal scholars to analyse and conceptualise...