Sunday, November 30, 2008

New Course, Spring 2009: "Globalization, Empire and the Law"

“Globalization, Empire, and the Law”

The Law department is offering in Spring Semester 2009 “Globalization, Empire, and the Law”. The course will explore the relationships between law, empire, and globalization, from historical and contemporary perspectives, and discuss the dynamics behind the rise and fall of imperial societies.

What makes political societies into imperial projects? How do states and nations rise to superpower and why they fail? What is the place of law in the construction and unmaking of imperial structures? Are empires a historical curiosity or does the legal organization of empire tell us anything about the current era of globalization?

The course will be a study of those and other questions through such imperial examples as Ancient Egypt and Persia, the ancient Greek World, Rome and Constantinople, the Umayyads and Abbasids, the Tang Dynasty in China, the Mongol, Spanish, Dutch, Ottoman, Russian and British Empires, ancient and less ancient African Empires, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, the Soviet Union, the United States of America, and last but not least emerging global powers such as the European Union and China.

The primary textbook will be Amy Chua’s Day of Empire, available at AUC bookstore.

Classes will be held each Monday from 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm, at AUC Law Department, 15th Floor, Cairo Capital Club Building, 9A Rostom Street, Garden City.

No exam. Paper required.

All are welcome to attend.

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