The Orfalea Center for Global & International
Studies
University of California,
Santa Barbara
and the
United Nations University
Legality and Legitimacy in the International Order
April 27-28, 2007
PROGRAM
Friday, April 27, 2007
Welcome/Opening Remarks
General Presentations
Paper 1: Legality/Legitimacy: Creative Tension and/or
Geopolitical Gambit
Richard Falk, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Global & International
Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Laura Nader, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Session 1
Paper 2: Law, Legitimacy, and the United Nations
Ramesh Thakur, Outgoing Senior Vice Rector for Peace and
Governance, United Nations University
Discussant: Isabella Bakker, Visiting Professor, Global & International
Studies, UCSB
Department of Political Science, York University
Paper 3: Legality/Legitimacy: Problems and Prospects
for Legality under American Empire
Amy Bartholomew, Center on Values and Ethics, Carleton
University
Discussant: Chris Newfield, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Session 2
Framing Legal/Legitimacy
Paper 4: Legality and Legitimacy of International
Criminal Tribunals
Vesselin Popovski, Academic Program Officer and
Director of Studies, Peace and Governance Program, United Nations
University
Discussant: Scott Horton, School of Law, Columbia University
Paper 5. Leaving Sovereignty Behind? An Inquiry into
the Politics of Post-Modernity
Friedrich Kratochwil, Department of Political and Social
Sciences, European University Institute
Discussant: Jacqueline Stevens, Department of Law & Society, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lunch
Friday afternoon
Session 3
Paper 6: Law, Legitimacy and Power in International
Society: A Conspectus from International, Transnational and
Transcivilizational Perspectives
Yasuaki Onuma, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
Discussant: Giles Gunn, Global & International Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper 7: Legality and Legitimacy: The Environmental
Challenge
Lorraine Elliott, Department of International Relations,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian
National University
Discussant: Hilal Elver, Visiting Professor of Global & International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Session 4
Paper 8: The Role of Law and Legitimacy in Economic
Development: A View From the Global South
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Director, Program on Human Rights
and Justice Center for International Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Discussant: Richard Appelbaum, Director, Masters in Global & International Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper 9: Legality and Legitimacy in the International
Order: The Changing Landscape of Nuclear Nonproliferation
Asli Bali, PhD candidate, Department of Politics,
Princeton University
Discussants: David Krieger, Director, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA
and Robert Rauchhaus, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Session 5
Paper 10: The Responsibility to Protect as a Theory
of the State
Anne Orford, The Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
Discussants: Lisa Hajjar, Law & Society Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
and Paul Amar, Law & Society Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper 11: On Exporting Democracy
Daniele Archibugi, Italian National Research Council (CNR),
Institute of Research on Population and Social Policy and University
of London, Birkbeck College, Department of Management
Discussant: Stephen Gill, Visiting Professor, Global & International Studies, UCSB, Department of Political Science York University
Session 6
Paper 12: Post-Secular Faith: Toward a Religion of
Service
Fred Dallmayr, Department of Government and International
Studies, University of Notre Dame
Discussant: Wadie Said, Visiting Professor, Law & Society Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper 13: Countering Terrorism by Invading Religious
Regimes
Mark Juergensmeyer, Director, Orfalea Center for Global & International
Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Vinay Lal, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Session 7
Concluding Overview
Overview Memo: Legitimacy and the Strategic Use of
Norms
Andrew Joseph Loomis, PhD candidate, Institute for International
Law and Politics, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Discussants: Juergensmeyer, Falk, and all participants
Closing Reception with UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang
