New forms of governance and law in Multi-Level Governance

The role of the state between international, transnational, national and sub-national governance of sustainable forestry

 

Seminar 

15 December 2010

09.00 - 12.00 

 

at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen:

Forest & Landscape, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C

 

Topic

For the purposes of the seminar and workshop, ‘law’ is understood in a broad sense, encompassing not only legislation and treaties but also soft law, law based incentives (such as economic incentives with a legal basis in Financial Acts), trade or other economic schemes related to objectives of international, regional or national law, new modes of governance, and a ‘softening’ of law and ‘juridification’ of politics in international and transnational governance.

The seminar will be an opportunity to hear international key note speakers address the topic of MLG from the perspectives of governance and ‘global’ law.

 

Programme

Morning session – seminar (this session is open to students, internal and external researchers and others with an interest in the topic)
Venue: Room SLF P -301 (Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Forest & Landscape, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg C – 2nd Floor, in the ‘Old Building’)

 

9:00-9:15: Registration

 

9:15-9:30: Welcome 
 

9:30-10:30: Key note speaker 1: Professor Ben Cashore, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies:

Can legality verification rescue global forest governance?

 

10:30-11:00: Coffee

 

11:00-12:00: Key note speaker 2: Professor Jan Wouters, Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance:

Conceptualising the transnationalisation and application of law in an MLG context

 

Participation in the seminar is free. Participants will pay their own travel and accommodation costs.

 

Organisers: Karin Buhmann, Associate Professor, Institute of Food & Resource Economics; Iben Nathan, Associate Professor, Forest & Landscape; both at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

 

The seminar and a subsequent closed workshop are funded by a grant provided by the Danish Research Council for the Social Sciences for the research project ‘Ny styrings- og retsformer i multi-level governance: Statens rolle mellem international, transnational, national og sub-national styring af bæredygtigt skovbrug’.

 

Inquiries: karin.buhmann@life.ku.dk