New Book Forum: 'Sovereignty in a Post-Sovereign Society' by Professor Jiri Priban
2 March 2016
Time: 4:00 - 6:30pm
Venue: Room 313, Law Building, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS
The Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) in the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London presents this new book forum for Professor Jiří Přibáň’s (Cardiff University) new book, Sovereignty in a Post-Sovereign Society, published by Ashgate. The forum will begin with an introduction to the book by Professor Přibáň, and will be followed by short commentary.
This session is organised and chaired by Dr Isobel Roele.
Commentators
- Professor Emilios Christodoulidis of the University of Glasgow
- Professor Ralf Rogowski of the University of Warwick
- Professor Michelle Everson of Birkbeck.
About the Book
Sovereignty marks the boundary between politics and law. Highlighting the legal context of politics and the political context of law, it thus contributes to the internal dynamics of both political and legal systems. This book comprehends the persistence of sovereignty as a political and juridical concept in the post-sovereign social condition. The tension and paradoxical relationship between the semantics and structures of sovereignty and post-sovereignty are addressed by using the conceptual framework of the autopoietic social systems theory.
Using a number of contemporary European examples, developments and paradoxes, the author examines topics of immense interest and importance relating to the concept of sovereignty in a globalising world. The study argues that the modern question of sovereignty permanently oscillating between de iúre authority and de facto power cannot be discarded by theories of supranational and transnational globalised law and politics.
Criticising quasi-theological conceptualizations of political sovereignty and its juridical form, the study reformulates the concept of sovereignty and its persistence as part of the self-referential communication of the systems of positive law and politics. The book will be of considerable interest to academics and researchers in political, legal and social theory and philosophy.
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