Translational Global Law

The workshop will be the inaugural event of the "Translational Global Law" project funded by the LIBERTY Connect Fund.

The project aims to understand the interaction between social and normative orders. The interwovenness, overlapping and permeation of postmodern normative spaces of formal and informal global law are aptly described by the term "inter-normativity". The research hypothesis is that phenomena of "inter-normativity" can be placed on a new theoretical basis and better understood when analyzed as translation processes by way of an interdisciplinary discussion with transpositional studies. On the one hand, the insights of the "critical turn" in translation studies provide a basis for challenging traditional ideas about how legal knowledge is exchanged and developed between legal systems. On the other hand, the project draws from the "translational turn" in cultural studies and works with the concept of translation in Jurij Lotman's cultural semiotics and in particular with the idea of the emergence of new information on the basis of more or less successful translation processes.

• Organizers:
  Prof. Dr. Thomas Kleinlein/Prof. Dr. Andrea Meyer-Fraatz/Luise Seidel
• Venue:
  Altes Schloss Dornburg
• Date:
  12. Mai 2023
• Workshop language:
  Englisch