Description
EU law has typically been perceived as inward-looking. Franco-German reconciliation and the quest for lasting peace on the continent have traditionally been considered the driver of the integration process. The argument presented here is however that legal scholars need to look at the EU differently. An epistemological switch is needed. Instead of internalistic logics, the key impetus driving the evolution of the EU legal order has always been the consecutive reconfigurations of Europe’s relations to the rest of the world. That was case from the cold war and decolonialisation to todays ‘fragmented globalisation’. One consequence of these reconfigurations was a gradual replacement of imperial and colonial law with the type of transnational post-imperial law of which the EU is the quintessential example. The regulation of global value chains from colonial law to contemporary due diligence legislation serve as a central example of this development. The talk will rely on but also go beyond this recently published article: From conflicts law to transformative law: facing ‘fragmented globalisation’ | European Law Open | Cambridge Core.| Period | 30 Oct 2025 |
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| Held at | Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
| Degree of Recognition | International |