Decentring Legal Power: Avantgarde Courts at the Frontiers of the Global Economy (Avant-Courts)
What? The project investigates the transformation of the global legal order caused by the rise of new hybrid courts at the frontiers of the global economy. Focusing on battles over jurisdiction and legal knowledge between Western courts and the new challengers, the project analyses how new litigation hubs are disrupting the dominant Western ways of producing law by hybridising law and legal institutions Why? The current transformation of the global legal order towards a multicentred one has huge implications for Western legal power and ideas of courts. Centring the analysis on new courts in emerging centres of the global economy and responses from Western legal systems to these courts, the project examines the making of a new legal order marked by hybrid courts and different notions of the rule of law How? The project probes new avantgarde courts in three distinct legal spaces at the frontiers of the global economy: new economic spaces, outer space and virtual spaces. The investigation spans an estimated 26 courts across these spaces to analyse their institutional, legal, and contextual characteristics, as well as the extent to which they are gaining a foothold and changing ideas of courts and law.
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Imported from OpenAIRE | Grant CF24-1575.
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Grant agreement CF24-1575
Open sourceWhat? The project investigates the transformation of the global legal order caused by the rise of new hybrid courts at the frontiers of the global economy. Focusing on battles over jurisdiction and legal knowledge between Western courts and the new challengers, the project analyses how new litigation hubs are disrupting the dominant Western ways of producing law by hybridising law and legal institutions Why? The current transformation of the global legal order towards a multicentred one has huge implications for Western legal power and ideas of courts. Centring the analysis on new courts in emerging centres of the global economy and responses from Western legal systems to these courts, the project examines the making of a new legal order marked by hybrid courts and different notions of the rule of law How? The project probes new avantgarde courts in three distinct legal spaces at the frontiers of the global economy: new economic spaces, outer space and virtual spaces. The investigation spans an estimated 26 courts across these spaces to analyse their institutional, legal, and contextual characteristics, as well as the extent to which they are gaining a foothold and changing ideas of courts and law.