The International Legal Order in Global Governance:
Norms, Power and Policy
Book Launch by Dr Alain Germeaux
Wednesday, 12 April 2023, 16:30 - 18:00 (CET)
Dr Alain Germeaux recently published his first monograph The International Legal Order in Global Governance: Norms, Power and Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), which probes the role of international law in shaping political action, as well as how power affects these processes, evidenced by the current challenges to the prevailing international legal, political and economic order - if only to name the discussions on security in the face of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, about strategic autonomy and the European Union’s role in the international arena, on upholding accountability for international crimes, as well as concerning global equity and justice in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. His book advances an analytical framework for understanding the effect of norms on behaviour, while being informed by the practical realities and practice of international organisation in examining the challenges the international legal order faces and what the way forward may look like. In doing so, it draws on international law, political theory, cognitive psychology and behavioural economics to explore a communicative-action based approach of how norms and ideas persuade actors to engage in a course of action consonant with international law to achieve a particular outcome.
In person Event
Venue: The event is taking place at the premises of the MPI Luxembourg.
Language: The event will be held in English.
The registration is closed.
Dr Alain Germeaux - The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Dr Alain Germeaux joined the diplomatic service after working as research fellow at the Research Centre on Normative Orders, the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the principal legal adviser of the Luxembourg Foreign Ministry and Head of Delegation to the International Criminal Court. He previously served on the Luxembourg delegation to the UN Security Council in 2013-2014 and later at the Permanent Representation to the European Union covering EU Trade Policy, the rule of law in the European Union, the Western Balkans region and the relations of the European Union with the EEA/EFTA states. He is also the lead agent of Luxembourg to the Court of Justice of the European Union and the International Court of Justice. He holds degrees in Public International Law and European Law from the University Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and a PhD from the University of Frankfurt am Main. His publications include the recently released monograph The International Legal Order in Global Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
Prof. Edoardo Stoppioni - University of Strasbourg
Prof. Edoardo Stoppioni is Professor of Public Law at the University of Strasbourg and a member of the Commission consultative des droits de l’homme du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. He holds a PhD in International Law (Sorbonne Law School) and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and a post-doctoral fellow at Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). He teaches and researches in the areas of public international law and EU law, comparative human rights law and critical theory of law.