Friday, November 18, 2011
Sam Muller | We spoke during his two days in Dubai to attend the Annual Conference of the International Bar Association, where he chaired the Anti-Corruption Committee. After this, he went on to Cannes for the G20, where an OECD instrument to further curb tax evasion was to be endorsed. This will add another important component to the growing web of rules to make the global economy more equitable and sustainable. It is also another successful rule making endeavour of the OECD.
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Sam Muller | When you start up a strategy process for the law of the future you quickly run into the basic question: who strategises? In the first draft of our scenarios we invented the mystical figure we call the national lawmaker. He does not really exist but he is a very useful figure to conjure up for the sake of what we want to achieve. He is the fictitious figure that strategises to make sure that his (or maybe it is a her?) national legal system remains robust and effective in face of the challenges the global legal environment throws up.
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Sam Muller | After ‘real politic’ it is now time for ‘real lex’: thinking more realistically about how law at the international level works.
Enforcement is, in my view, the key challenge for the law of the future. Dysfunctional states or states which do not enforce laws as we do within the EU – either because they cannot or because they choose not to – present a very serious challenge to international business, for which a level playing field is critical.
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Sam Muller | For me Aryeh Neier, the director of the Open Society Institute, is in many ways Mister Civil Society; I have seen his hand in many of the cutting-edge international law endeavours of the past decades: the ICTY, the ICTR, the ICC, and the Publish What You Pay initiative being the most visible and impressive. What can he tell us about the law of the future and the future of law? (Continued)
The Law of the Future is about creating a forum to discuss how we might envisage the global legal environment of the future. It goes without saying that the next generation should be included in this discussion. This ‘Young Talent’ is playing an important role during the Law of the Future Conference with a special workshop on 24 June.
This guest blog post is submitted by Lijun Zhao, student at China University of Political Science and Law, Mater 2010; University of Wales, Banger, UK, Ph.D candidate, 2010 Sep until now. (Continued)
The Law of the Future Joint Action Programme is about creating a forum to discuss how we might envisage the global legal environment of the future. It goes without saying that the next generation should be included in this discussion. This ‘Young Talent’ is playing an important role during the Law of the Future Conference by organising a special workshop on 24 June.
This guest blog post is submitted by Lina Jasmontaitė, student of Law at Tilburg University. (Continued)
Sam Muller | “One of the scenarios I see most clearly is one in which the national state gets more and more intertwined with regional public authorities,” says Judge Geert Corstens, President of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands (Hoge Raad) as we start our interview in his stately office. A peaceful Scheveningen beach by Hendrik Willem Mesdag – boats, fishermen and the low afternoon sun – hangs prominently on one of the walls, adding to the reflective nature of our conversation. President Corstens considers carefully and speaks in a calm voice that almost always reduces very complex things to more simple terms, without loosing nuance: “This allows for internationalisation, but also leaves national room for manoeuvre.” (Continued)
The Law of the Future Joint Action Programme is about creating a forum to discuss how we might envisage the global legal environment of the future. It goes without saying that the next generation should be included in this discussion. This ‘Young Talent’ is playing an important role during the Law of the Future Conference by organising a special workshop on 24 June.
This guest blog post is submitted by Sofia Saarinen, student of International and European Law at The Hague University. (Continued)
Laura Kistemaker | Parag Khanna, a very dynamic and young thinker, just published a new book: How to run the world. That would be somebody you’d want to interview when you are member of a team that is working to understand challenges of the law of the future and the future of law. Luckily, he thought we were worth giving an interview too. (Continued)
The Law of the Future Joint Action Programme is about creating a forum to discuss how we might envisage the global legal environment of the future. It goes without saying that the next generation should be included in this discussion. This ‘Young Talent’ is playing an important role during the Law of the Future Conference by organising a special workshop on 24 June.
This guest blog post is submitted by Victoria Daskalova, student at Tilburg University. (Continued)