300250 The Emergence of the Global Legal System (S) (SoSe 2018)

WEEK 1
Core Themes:
National citizenship; legal integration; foundations of national legal systems
Reading:
Talcott Parsons, ‘Full Citizenship for the Negro American? A Sociological Problem.’ Daedalus 94(4) (1965): 1009-1054.
T.H. Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class, introduced by Tom Bottomore. London: Pluto, 1992[1950]).

WEEK 2
Core Themes:
National integration; legal system and political system
Reading:
Bernhard Peters, Die Integration moderner Gesellschaften. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1993.

WEEK 3
Core Themes:
Is there a system of international law? Human rights and social integration
Reading:
Anne Peters, Jenseits der Menschenrechte. Die Rechtsstellung des Individuums im Völkerrecht. Tübingen: Mohr, 2014.

WEEK 4
Core Themes:
International law and the formation of national law: Case Studies on South Africa, Colombia and the Russian Federation
Cases:
Colombian Constitutional Court, T-025/04 (in Spanish)
South African Constitutional Court, S v. Makwanyane and Another (CCT3/94) [1995] ZACC 3; 1995 (6) BCLR 665; 1995 (3) SA 391; [1996] 2 CHRLD 164; 1995 (2) SACR 1 (6 June 1995).
Reading:
Maria Smirnova and Chris Thornhill, ‘A Sociological Approach to the Russian Constitution’. Comparative Sociology 15(6) (2016): 747-793

WEEK 5
Core Themes:
World citizenship; world system
Reading:
John W. Meyer, ‘The World-Polity and the Authority of the Nation-State’ in Albert Bergesen (ed.), Studies of the Modern World-System (New York: Academic Press, 1980).
John Boli and George M. Thomas, ‘World Culture in the World Polity: A Century of International Non-Governmental Organization.’ American Sociological Review 62(2) (1997): 171-190.
Francisco O. Ramirez and John W. Meyer, ‘Toward Post-National Societies and Global Citizenship.’ Multicultural Education Review (2012) 4(1): 1-28.

WEEK 6
Core Themes:
National citizenship; global citizenship; social origins of global law
Reading:
Hauke Brunkhorst, Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions – Evolutionary Perspectives. London/New York: Continuum, 2014.

WEEK 7
Core Themes:
Autonomy of law in world society; transnational law
Reading:
Gunther Teubner, Constitutional Fragments. Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization. Oxford University Press, 2012.

WEEK 8
Core Themes:
Global legal system; national citizenship; global democracy
Reading:
Chris Thornhill, The Sociology of Law and the Global Transformation of Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2018.