Think Pieces by experts
Some of the world’s best academics and leading practitioners are involved in the Law of the Future Programme. More then 100 experts have been consulted through interviews and Think Pieces. The 49 Think Pieces are compiled into the exclusive 750 pages publication The Law of the Future and the Future of Law.
What has emerged from the submissions is a particularly rich and diverse body of knowledge and wisdom. General and particular insights and trends have been distilled from the Think Pieces and are used as building blocks for the Law Scenarios to 2030.
Publication: The Law of the Future and the Future of Law
Editors: Sam Muller, Stavros Zouridis, Morly Frishman and Laura Kistemaker
ISBN 978-82-93081-27-2
The publication can be ordered from online distributors such as www.amazon.co.uk or be read, printed or downloaded from Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher without any cost.
Contributors & abstracts of the Think Pieces
Globalisation, the International System, International Law and a Global Constitutional Framework: Towards a New Global New Deal?
- Randall Peerenboom - The Future of Law in a Multi-polar World: Toward a Global New Deal
- Thomas Pogge - A Future to Avert: Law as Contributor to Instability and Polarisation
- Jan Klabbers - The Idea(s) of International Law
- André Nollkaemper - The Bifurcation of International Law: Two Futures for the International Rule of Law
- Stavros Zouridis - The Rule of Law in the 21st Century: Bridging the Compliance Deficit
- Michel Rosenfeld - The Challenges of Constitutional Ordering in a Multilevel Legally Pluralistic and Ideologically Divided Globalised Polity
- Joost Pauwelyn - The Rise and Challenges of ‘Informal’ International Law-making
Changing State Institutions
- Tom Ginsburg - The Future of National Constitutions in a Global World
- Philipp Kiiver - The Future of Parliamentary Accountability in Europe
- Ralf Michaels - Global Problems in Domestic Courts
- Hans Corell - The Increased Interconnection between International and National Law and the Need to Coordinate the Legislative Process in the Future
- John Bell - The Internationalisation of Public Services and the Character of National Public Law
- Jean-Bernard Auby - Mega-cities, Glocalisation and the Law of the Future
- Janne Nijman - The Future of the City and the International Law of the Future
Private Actors, International Commerce and Private Legal Regimes
- Gralf-Peter Calliess - The Future of Commercial Law – Governing Cross-Border Commerce
- Jan Smits - Private Law in a Post-National Society
- Deborah Hensler - How Economic Globalisation is Helping to Construct a Private Transnational Legal Order
- Thorsten Beck - Matching Global Banks with Global Regulation
- Tineke Lambooy - Corporate Law and CSR: Will There Be a Constitution for Multinational Companies in 2030?
- Jan Eijsbouts - International Market Regulation, Corporate Governance, CSR and Multinationals
- Levinus Timmerman, Matthijs de Jongh and Alexander Schild - The Rise of the Social Enterprise: How Social Enterprises Are Changing Company Law Worldwide
Law and Its Evolution – Theoretical Perspectives
- Peer Zumbansen - The Future of Legal Theory
- Jo Ritzen and Aalt Willem Heringa - An Imminent Implosion of Legal Systems?
- Hans Lindahl - The Boundaries of Legal Orders in a Postnational Setting: Conceptual, Normative and Institutional Issues
- James Gordley - The Future of Private Law
- David Koepsell - International Law and Legal Positivism
- Hugh Patrick Glenn - The Future of the Future
- Marc Amstutz - Mechanisms of Evolution for a Law of the Future
- Pierre Larouche - Law, Society and Normativity
- Ewoud Hondius - A Private Law Perspective, Focusing on Procedural Aspects
Divergence and Convergence of Legal Systems
- Larry Catá Backer - Inter-Systemic Harmonization and Its Challenges for the Legal-State
- David Nelken - Globalisation, Comparative Criminal Justice, and Diversity
- Hugh Collins - The Impossible Necessity of European Labour Law
- Stefan Grundmann - The Future of Contract Law
- Ruth Sefton-Green - Transformations of European Contract Law over the Next Two Decades
- Benedict Kingsbury - Indicators and Governance by Information in the Law of the Future
New Legal Challenges Posed by Technological Development
- Nicole Vincent - The Challenges Posed to Private Law by Emerging Cognitive Enhancement Technologies
- Efthimios Parasidis - The Essence of Being Human
- Yan Ling - The Future of Space Law
- Peter Hustinx - Privacy and Data Protection – Legal Lessons?
- Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade - Future Trends in the Regulation of Personal Identity and Legal Personification in the context of Ambient Intelligence Environments: The Right to Multiple Identities and the Rise of the ‘AIvatars’
The Emerging International Criminal Justice System
- Mark Osiel - After International Law: Non-Juridical Responses to Mass Atrocity
- Richard Goldstone - The Future of International Criminal Justice and Its Impact on Domestic Law
- Göran Sluiter - The Future of International Criminal Justice
- Sébastien Jodoin - Crimes against Present and Future Generations: Ending Corporate Impunity for All Serious Violations of International Law
- Filippo Spiezia - The Coordination of Investigations at International Level: Towards a World Public Prosecutor?
- André Klip - The Future of International and European Criminal Law
- Maíra Rocha Machado - Modern Penal Rationality Left Behind: A Call for Innovative Thinking and Practice in Criminal Law
- Sohail Inayatullah - Alternative Futures of Crime and Prisons






























































































