Jan Klabbers, Global Governance Colloquium at the Hertie School of Governance Berlin

November, 10th, Wednesday, 06:00 pm
Global Governance Colloquium

Global Governance Colloquium at the
Hertie School of Governance Berlin
Friedrichstr. 180
room 2.61.

Jan Klabbers is professor of International Organisations Law and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki. He will speak on
“Rethinking Functionalism: Paul S. Reinsch and the Making of International Institutional Law“

In the law of international organizations, functionalism has attained near-paradigmatic status. Yet, over the last two decades or so, it has become clear that functionalism is ill-equipped to address the control of international organizations. On the twin assumptions that it might be useful to spell out what functionalism stands for and that it might be possible to re-think functionalism in order to integrate control, this paper discusses the ideas and methods developed by the auctor intellectualis of functionalism, Paul Reinsch (who wrote in the early 20th century). It discusses the comparative method, the inaptitude of the federal analogy, and the influence of colonial theory, and then aims to re-align functionalism and control by enriching legal thought through the introduction of virtue ethics.

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