Global Law and Governance
In our transforming societies, law and governance have come under pressure. This research program takes on the rethinking of law and governance and also offers ways forward. We start from the major societal challenges like climate change, further globalization and increasing inequalities, the growing importance of social media, and migration.
The focus of research in Global Law and Governance is the way institutions, networks, organizations and professionals in law and governance deal with the great challenges of our time. We do not consider the state as the norm but think of law and governance in terms of a network of interacting, competing, and overlapping normative orders - from the local to the global. We make use of a wide range of disciplines, research strategies and methods.
Highlights
Some of our projects
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Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene
The purpose of this project to explore the challenges of constitutionalization and governance in the Anthropocene era.
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Redress - Revitalized democracy for resilient societies
Within the REDRESS project, we investigate new forms of democracy in the Netherlands, together with partners like the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, LSA Bewoners (network of residential groups) and the VNG (Association of Netherlands Municipalities).
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Regulating greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
In this project, a comparative law study is being carried out to examine how the European emissions trading system can be adapted in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
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TransLitigate: How transnational collaboration networks contribute to environmental litigation
TransLitigate is a multidisciplinary research project that aims to identify how strategic litigators collaborate transnationally in and across cases working across four fields of environmental litigation: climate change, biodiversity conservation, pollution from extractives industries, and land conflicts.
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CONTRA: CONflict in TRAnsformations
The typical answer to polarization in transformations has been to strengthen consensus building among stakeholders, but such approaches are known to lead to alienation, tensions with existing democratic institutions, and an increasing gap with legal practice. CONTRA explores how institutionalizing the productive side of conflicts can increase the transformative capacity needed in the transition towards more sustainable cities.
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