LL.M. in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
Advancing Peace through Global Governance and Global Institutions for the 21st Century: Book Talk
Date: 8 April 2022
Time: 9:30am CET / 4:30pm HKT
via Zoom, please click here for registration.
Speaker: Maja Groff, Arthur Dahl, Agusto Lopez-Claros
Moderator: Shahla Ali, Faculty of Law
About the Speakers:
Maja Groff is an international lawyer based in The Hague, who has assisted in the development and servicing of multilateral treaties, also working at various international criminal tribunals and teaching regularly at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Arthur Dahl is President of the International Environment Forum, and a retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), with 50 years’ international experience in environment and sustainability. His most recent focus has been on global governance and UN reform.
Augusto Lopez-Claros is Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum. He is an international economist with over 30 years of experience in international organizations, including most recently at the World Bank.
About the Book: . (2020). Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides ambitious but reasonable proposals to give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary to address effectively the catastrophic risks facing humanity that are beyond national control. The solution, the authors suggest, is to extend to the international level the same principles of sensible governance that exist in well-governed national systems: rule of law, legislation in the common interest, an executive branch to implement such legislation, and courts to enforce it. The best protection is unified collective action, based on shared values and respect for diversity, to implement widely accepted international principles to advance universal human prosperity and well-being. This title is also available as Open Access.