Law & Justice in Globalizing World - (Paper-I)
Law & Justice in Globalizing World - (Paper-I)
Law & Justice in Globalizing World - (Paper-I)
Objectives:
This course traces the manner in which globalisation has wrought changes in international law
and international institutions, and in turn, its influence upon constitutional and legal
developments and the idea of law and justice within in India. The paper will focus on the impact
of globalisation on marginalised groups and understand the impact through study of selected
themes of environmental justice, labour-related issues, financial regulation and international
trade to understand the manner in which globalisation has affected law and justice in
international law and within India.
Growing role of International Institutions; Globalization and the free market - Democratic
Deficit in International Institutions; International Financial Institutions; ILO; WTO;
Environmental Organizations; Global Administrative Law; Erosion of Sovereignty;
Readings:
1. Ian Hurd, Cogan and Johnston, Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 2016).
2. B.S.Chimni, “International Institutions Today: An Imperial Global State in the Making”,
European Journal of International Law, vol.15, number 1, February 2004, pp.1-39.
3. World Commission on Social Dimension of Globalization, A Fair Globalization for All
(2004).
4. World Bank, World Development Report – various years.
Idea of Global Justice; Poverty and Global Justice; Climate Justice; Economic Justice; Labour
Justice; Fair Trade; Justice and Marginalized group; Justice Delivery and Globalization; Access
to Justice;
Readings:
1. John Rawls, TheLaw of Peoples (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001).
2. Nancy Fraser, ‘Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World’, New Left Review 36
November-December 2005.
3. B.S. Chimni, “A Just World Under Law: A View from the South” American University
International Law Review vol.22 (2007) pp.199-220.
4. Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2008)
Second edition.
5. Jagadish Bhagwati, “In Defence of Globalization: It Has Human Face”, The 2005 Angelo
Costa Lecture (Rome), available at:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/papers/pdf/Angelo_Costa_Lecture_2005.pdf (visited on
July 31, 2013).
6. Upendra Baxi, The Future of Human Rights ( 3rd ed.OUP, Delhi, 2012).
7. Upendra Baxi, Human Rights in a Post Human World: Critical Essays ( OUP, Delhi,
2007).
8. B de Sousa Santos, Towards a new legal common sense: Law Golobalisation and
emancipation (2002).
9. Oliver Mendelsohn, The Indian legal profession, the courts and globalisation, Journal of
South Asian Studies 28 (2005).
10. Muller, Highest Curts and Globalisation Asser, Netherlands (2011).
11. M.Mate, Globalisation, Rights, and Judicial Review in the Supreme Court of India,
Washington International Law Review (2016).
12. Law Commission of India, One Hundred and Eightyeigth Report
13. Vipin Mathew Benjaman, Has the Judiciary Abandodned the Environement? HRLN,
New Delhi 2000.
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