For anyone in the vicinity, this looks like a brilliant event: The organisers tell us that registration for the event is important. Registration is free and can be done by emailing gtcentre@unsw.edu.au with the subject line ‘Neoliberalism Symposium’. They say: Please hurry as spaces are limited!
Neo-liberalism is not simply an economic theory but a political philosophy that has legality at its core, defining itself against the regulatory state for violating individual liberty and advocating private property rights and a certain vision of the rule of law as crucial to the functioning of capitalist economies. The rule of law has also been central to the processes of neo-liberal globalisation with ‘rule of law promotion’ playing a crucial role in developing markets in the global South. And, while human rights are often used as tools for political critique and resistance, the historian Samuel Moyn has illustrated that the language of human rights has colonised political discourse since the late 1970s. This is the very same period in which neo-liberalism has restructured the relationship between economy and society and state, raising the question of whether there is a relationship between these two phenomena.
Friday 1 August 2014
Staff Common Room, Level 2, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
Building F8. See map
8.30-9.00: Registration and Collection of Name Badges
9.00-9.30 Welcome and Introduction
Daniel McLoughlin (University of New South Wales)
9.30-10.45 Panel 1: The Political Economy of Neoliberalism
Damien Cahill, ‘Embedded Neoliberalism and its Durability’ (University of Sydney)
Rob Nicholls, ‘And so to Bed: Regulatory Regimes as a Mechanism to Embed Neoliberalism’ (University of New South Wales)
10.45-11.15: Morning Tea
11.15-12.30: Panel 2: Neoliberalism and State Authority
Anna Yeatman, ‘Neoliberalism and the Question of Authority’ (University of Western Sydney)
Chris Butler, ‘State Power under Authoritarian Neoliberalism’ (Griffith University)
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.15: Panel 3: Law and Economy in Neoliberal Thought
Jessica Whyte, ‘Governing homo œconomicus: Michel Foucault, Adam Ferguson, and the Providential Logic of Civil Society’ (University of Western Sydney)
Miguel Vatter, ‘Legal Systems and Economic Equilibrium: Hayek vs Becker’ (University of New South Wales)
Paul Patton, ‘Rights, Interests and the Basis of Government’ (University of New South Wales)
15.15-15.45: Afternoon Tea
15.45-17.00: Panel 4: Neoliberal Uses of the Rule of Law
Martin Krygier, ‘Trajectories of the Rule of Law: Pre-liberal, Liberal, Neo-, and Non-’ (University of New South Wales)
Melinda Cooper, ‘Postcolonial Family Law – Economic Liberalization, Rule of Law and the Reinvention of Tradition’ (University of Sydney)
Saturday 2 August 2014
Staff Common Room, Level 2, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
10.00-11.45: Panel 5: Law and Neoliberalism in the Global South
Fleur Johns, ‘Power Dispersal in the Work of Milton Friedman and in the Mekong River Basin: Nam Theun II and Xayaburi’ (University of New South Wales)
Javier Couso, ‘Constructing “Privatopia”: The Role of Constitutional Law and Courts in Chile’s Radical Neoliberal Experiment’ (Universidad Diego Portales)
Chepal Sherpa, ‘Theorizing Democratic Legality under Neoliberal Capitalism: India’s Neoliberal Project and the Maoist Alternative’ (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
11.45-12.15: Morning Tea
12.15-14.00: Panel 6: Neoliberal Legality Beyond the Nation State
Thomas Biebricher, ‘Understanding the Rise of Juridical Neoliberalism in Europe’ (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Ntina Tzouvala, ‘Neo-liberalism as Legalism: The Rise of the Judiciary and International Trade Law’ (Durham University)
Jothie Rajah, ‘Neo-liberalism and the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index’ (American Bar Foundation)
14.00-15.00: Lunch
15.00-16.45: Panel 7: Strange Bedfellows? Human Rights and Neoliberalism
Samuel Moyn, ‘A Powerless Companion: Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism’ (Harvard)
Zeynep Kivilcim, ‘Articulating Human Rights Discourse in Local Struggles in a Neoliberal Age’ (Istanbul University)
Ben Golder, ‘The Neoliberal Question: Human Rights, Legal Form, and Political Strategy’ (University of New South Wales)
14.45: End
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