Law and Contemporary Issues: The International Order Under Scrutiny

A workshop to scrutinize the transformation of the contemporary international order, encompassing its social, political, legal, economic, and technological dimensions. The workshop will serve as an in-depth examination of the issues outlined in Professor Sir Adam Roberts' lecture of the previous day. It is plain that shifts in the structure of the international order, and the associated social relationships, are experiencing strain and being reconceived and redesigned in reaction to deeper forces. Among the factors driving this change and revision, even transformation, include: relations among nations; the rise of social movements in response to changing attitudes to authority and established ideas and institutions; altered dispositions towards international law and international and regional institutions; challenges to the liberal order; scepticism about human rights, universal principles, and the power of the courts to uphold them; new economic perspectives, revised business and financial relations and practices; and the rapid development of technology.

In association with the Platforms, Governance and Global Society (PGG) programme, Law, Justice and Society Research Cluster at Wolfson College.