Conference Announcements: Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance; Queen Mary, London Conference on “Authority in a Transnational Age”

1) IBEI (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals) and ESADEgeo (ESADE Business School’s Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics) are organizing the second edition of the Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance, an international workshop to discuss the institutional design of global governance, on 9 & 10 January 2014. The workshop brings together scholars from international relations, international law and related disciplines; its focus this year is on networks in global governance. The aim is to examine the potential and limitations of network approaches, as well as the challenges that networked governance at the global level can pose in terms of effectiveness, accountability and democracy. Confirmed keynote speakers include Deborah Avant (University of Denver), Miles E. Kahler (University of California San Diego) and Magnus Thor Torfasson (Harvard Business School) as well as Narcís Serra (former Spanish Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister) and Javier Solana (former NATO Secretary General and EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy). Abstracts of up to 500 words should be sent by 27 September 2013 to info {at} bcnwgg(.)net. Further information is available here .

2) The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context, at Queen Mary,  University of London, is hosting a Modern Law Review Seminar, on 8-9  November 2013, on the theme: ‘Authority in a Transnational Age’. The  conference offers a multi-disciplinary inquiry – combining philosophy,  sociology, anthropology and history – into how the increasingly transnational context of regulation challenges the concept of authority. Speakers are: Leslie Green, Michel Troper, Matthias Kumm, Neil Walker, Nico Krisch, Paul Schiff Berman, Sally Falk Moore, Roger Cotterrell, Werner Menski, Patrick Glenn, Horatia Muir Watt and Gralf-Peter Calliess. The program, including booking information, is available here .