1014268 - TRANSNATIONAL LAW

Knowledge and comprehension
This course provides students a focused insight into the transnational legal dimensions of today’s world and the opportunity to critically discuss and understand the different methods of making, interpreting and enforcing the law beyond the domestic legal orders.
Student attending the Transnational Law Course on a regular basis are expected to gain advanced knowledge in public/private international law, international organization and comparative legal systems getting acquainted with the state of the art scientific debate as well as with a deeper understanding of transnational legal conflicts and processes in a wider and integrated perspective.
Applying knowledge and understanding
Being capable of first advanced problem-solving in laws interpretation and enforcement. This enables the attainment of further higher educational levels within the areas of interests of transnational law programs.
Making Judgments
Brain Storming Sessions are offered in order to provide students with critical thought and specific communication skills
Communication Skills
Essay-writing Drills are offered through the course, in order to empower students to a better use of their written communication skills
Learning Skills
At the end of this course students are able to use autonomously materials and cases provided throughout the course

This course consists of Taught Seminars providing students a focused insight into the transnational legal dimensions of today’s world and the opportunity to critically discuss and understand the different methods of making, interpreting and enforcing the law beyond the domestic legal orders.

Students  attending the Transnational Law Course on a regular basis are expected to gain advanced knowledge in public/private international law, international organization and comparative legal systems getting acquainted with the state of the art scientific debate as well as with a deeper understanding of transnational legal conflicts and processes in a wider and integrated perspective.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, changes may occur, if necessary, with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the Syllabus.

Informazioni per studenti con disabilità e/o DSA
A garanzia di pari opportunità e nel rispetto delle leggi vigenti, gli studenti interessati possono chiedere un colloquio personale col docente in modo da programmare eventuali misure compensative e/o dispensative, in base agli obiettivi didattici ed alle specifiche esigenze.
E' possibile rivolgersi anche al docente referente CInAP (Centro per l’integrazione Attiva e Partecipata - Servizi per le Disabilità e/o i DSA) del nostro Dipartimento, prof. Condorelli.

Per le propedeuticità formali consultare il regolamento didattico della coorte di riferimento disponibile nella pagina dedicata http://www.lex.unict.it/it/chi-siamo/regolamenti-didattici-del-corso-di-laurea-magistrale-ciclo-unico-giurisprudenza-lmg01

Conflict of Laws an Asset

Compulsory

The Course is structured in two parts

Part 1 shall consist of an introductory Seminar on General Issues of Transnational Law

Part 2 shall be devoted to an examination of the so called Global Citizenship issues

PART I An Idea of Transnational Law

1. Peer Zumbansen, Transnational Law (2006) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1105576

2. Roger Cotterrell, What is Transnational Law? (2012) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021088

3. Mathias Reimann, From the Law of Nations to Transnational Law (2004) https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/psilr/vol22/iss3/3/

4. Gregory Shaffer & Carlos Coye, From International Law to Jessup's Transnational Law, from Transnational Law to Transnational Legal Orders (2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2895159

5. James E. Baker, What's International Law Got to Do With It? Transnational Law and the Intelligence Mission (2007) https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1452/

6.Karsten Nowrot, Aiding and Abetting in Theorizing ... ( 2018) https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sozoek/professuren/nowrot/archiv/heft-17-nowrot-transnational-law.pdf

7. Anna Margherita Russo, Globalization and Cross-border Cooperation in EU Law: A Transnational Research Agenda (2012) http://www.on-federalism.eu/attachments/145_download.pdf

8. Maria Manuela Pappalardo, What is Transnational Law? A Trip through a Still Unknown Land, CRIO Papers 50(2020)

PART II Where has the Global Citizenship Gone?

9. Kim Rubenstein & Daniel Adler, International Citizenship: The Future of Nationality in a Globalized World, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 2000, pp. 519 ff.

10. Saskia Sassen, The Repositioning of Citizenship: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics, The Berkeley Journal of Sociology 2002, pp. 4 ff.

11. Saskia Sassen, The Participation of States and Citizens in Global Governance, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 2003, pp. 5 ff.

12. Berta E. Hernández-Truyol, Globalized Citizenship: Sovereignty, Security and Soul, Villanova Law Review 2005, pp. 1009 ff.

13. Nelly P. Stromquist, Theorizing Global Citizenship: Discourses, Challenges, and Implications for Education, Interamerican Journal of Education for Democracy 2009, pp. 5 ff.

14. Rosario Sapienza, A Global Governance at the Service of All Peoples, CRIO Papers 16(2011)

Oral Examination on Parts I and II of the program

The exam will be assessed according to the following criteria established by the Board of the Degree Course (September 17, 2018):

• aptness of answers
• quality and comprehension of the syllabus
• ability to link different topics of the syllabus
• ability to show examples
• use of jargon and terms of art
• general communicative skills
• familiarity with legal texts

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

The Role of States in Transnational Law

Transnational Law and European Studies

The Italian Pathway to Transnational Law