This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The module is designed to operate on two fundamental principles: it is interdisciplinary and it is research-led. This has the following implications for the curriculum:
a. Though the module runs under the responsibility of KLS, Pol/IR staff at BSIS will make a significant contribution to the module.
b. The module draws extensively from material from legal sociology, political theory, international relations, political economy and other
disciplines.
c. The module is designed to offer, during the first six weeks, a solid theoretical foundation to the study of law and governance in a global
economy; the remainder of the course will allow time and flexibility for staff to present a number of 'case studies' resulting from their own
research.
• Technology regimes
Total contact hours: 180
Private study hours: 20
Total study hours: 200
LLM/MA in (Specialisation) - Brussels; PG Diploma in (Specialisation) - Brussels; PG Certificate in Law – Brussels.
Main assessment methods
Essay – no more than 5000 words (100%)
Reassessment methods
100% coursework
John Braithwaite, Regulatory Capitalism (Elgar 2009)
Tim Büthe & Walter Mattli, The New Global Rulers-The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy (Princeton UP 2011)
Gralf-Peter Callies and Peer Zumbansen, Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (Hart Publishing 2012)
Bertram Lomfeld, Alessandro Somma and Peer Zumbansen (eds.), Reshaping Markets: Economic Governance, the Global Financial Crisis and Liberal Utopia (Cambridge UP 2016)
Sol Picciotto, The Regulation of Global Corporate Capitalism (Cambridge UP 2011)
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate familiarity with the major theoretical approaches to legal regulation of integrating markets from different disciplines;
2. Understand the normative and constitutional dimensions of market regulation;
3. Show an appreciation of the dilemmas of legal regulation of economic processes caused by the loss of congruence of political and social
spaces;
4. Recognise the implications of the shift from 'government' to 'governance' in political sociology and law;
5. Bring to bear insights from political theory, sociology and law on the study of current issues of globalisation and privatisation;
6. Appreciate the potential and the limits of law and legal institutions in the regulation of the international economy and society.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1. Analytical thought and writing: reflect upon complex ideas and arguments; digest, analyse and test scholarly views; relate scholarly ideas
and arguments to issues and circumstances in the contemporary global political economy; summarise and analyse scholarly arguments in
writing
2. Advocacy and defence: formulate an opinion in response to an issue or question, construct coherent and persuasive arguments to
advocate one's view and defend that view against criticism
3. Communication and presentation skills: prepare oral and written presentations of information and viewpoints to peers; respond to
comment and criticism from peers; lead and manage group discussion
4. Problem-solving: respond at short notice to questions and challenges making use of knowledge, analytical tools and perspectives
acquired in the module
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