Speaker: Jean-Marc Coicaud

Title: International Law, National Interest and Global Justice

Moderator: Daniel A. Bell, dean at School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University.

Host: School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University

Date and place: Jun 11th, 2018, 19:00, Zhensheng Courtyard E102

Bio of Speaker:

Jean-Marc Coicaud is a professor of Law and Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Global Ethics Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Member of the Academia Europaea (the European Academy of Arts and Sciences) and a distinguished Fudan Scholar.

He achieved Doctorat d’Etat in Legal and Political Theory at Université de Paris I（Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Doctorat d’Etat in Linguistics at Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, and Arthur Sachs Scholar-Fellow, Harvard University. He masters various languages such as French, English, Spanish, Mandarin, Italian and German etc. His research interests lie in International Law, International Organization, International Law Institute, Legal Theory. He has published 15 books and 98 papers.

Content:

The lecture examined how international law builds a sense of legitimacy at the international level. In this perspective, it explored the extent and limits of such sense of legitimacy built by international law. In the process, the talk showed that there are tensions but also opportunities offered by international law when it comes to the relationship between a culture of national interest and a culture of global justice.