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Legal aspects of globalisation
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Anno accademico 2014/2015
- Codice dell'attività didattica
- GIU0612
- Docente
- Prof. Leopold Specht (Titolare del corso)
- Corso di studi
- Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza - a Torino (D.M. 270/2004) [f004-c501]
- Tipologia
- A scelta dello studente
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- Lingua di insegnamento
- Inglese
- Modalità di frequenza
- Consigliata
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
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Programma
The course will be divided in four parts:
(1) Economic theories’ narrative about money and financial institutions: law as a blind spot of economics;
(2) Regulatory frameworks of finance: the example of the European Union;
(3) The foundational force of law in finance; pars s pro toto: the plasticity of legal institutions and their potential for change;
(4) Alternatives within finance: responses to the current crisiMainstream economic theories do not explain the origin of money in contemporary societies. This observation applies to neo-classical and monetarist economic theories as well as to Keynesian variations of the mainstream. To the extent it considers this issue of relevance for economic analysis the mainstream mystifies money and evaporates its origins in unfounded historic tales about facilitations of exchange. In this respect, money is just another barter commodity for the neo-classic and the medium of credit for Keynesian economics.
Mainstream economic theories relate to the insights of other social sciences and the humanities as auxiliary, at best. To the extent economics purport to being more than bad mathematics, its policy advice is based upon simplifying notions of power, politics and law.
Law in particular is a black box for economic theories. The foundational force of law – also in relation to the most important social institution of modern capitalism: money – is beyond the economic mainstream’s grasp of social reality. The causal nexus between certain institutes of private law and money and the constructive power of public law within a globalized economy are not being analysed.
Correspondingly, prevailing methods of legal analysis and jurisprudence -- most prominently, law and economics – assume that mainstream economics shape the foundational rationality of social organization. These methods of legal analysis are built upon rationalities taken from the economic mainstream.
References to the institutions of global finance, global trade and other elements of an economic world order, degenerate, within the mainstream, to reminders of a supposedly unmodifiable logic of economic and social development. In this view, global order is the institutional framework for path dependent development.
The pluralism of legal traditions and institutions, the indeterminacy of these institutions and the governing effect of law upon social reality, escape the mainstream.
Jurisprudence of finance is a distinct area of legal analysis. Its point of departure is the structuring power of law in society. Its focus is the monetization of social activities and specific institutions of money and finance which developed within global capitalism as result of developments of private and public law. In particular, the nexus of property rights – ownership in particular – and finance, is at the core of this distinct area of legal analysis. This nexus is not of a simple causal nature. While a certain abstraction (and complexity) of property rights, their emancipation from factual control, poses a pre-condition for originating money, financial transactions have been the cause for the further shaping of property rights. With financial institutions at the centre of regulation of markets, property rights increasingly escape the frameworks of a scholastic jurisprudence. To make an example, property is an economic right as well as a political one. Faculties of public law migrate into the realm of private law, etc.Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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Students will be required to master some core readings in advance of classes. Such readings will be downloaded into a dropbox to which every student will obtain access upon invitation after registration for the course. The list of readings will be distributed in the first class.
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Note
Orario delle lezioni:
lunedì 16 marzo 2015
15-17, aula H5
martedì 17 marzo 2015
10-12, aula H2
Martedì 24 marzo 2015
17.30 – 19.30, aula H4
martedì 25 marzo 2015
Lezione da confermare
lunedì 27 aprile 2015
14-16, 17-19 aula H5
martedì 28 aprile 2015
8-10, aula H2
lunedì 4 maggio 2015
14-16, 17-19, aula H5
martedì 5 maggio 2015
8-10, aula H2
lunedì 11 maggio 2015
14-16, 17-19, aula H5
martedì 12 maggio 2015
8-10, aula H2
lunedì 25 maggio 2015
14-16, 17-19, aula H5
martedì 26 maggio 2015
8-10, aula H2
lunedì 8 giugno 2015
Workshop conclusivo, in orario da definire
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