The conference took place at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore from 16 to 17 February 2017.

The increasing power, complexity, and necessity of global legal regimes demands sophisticated analysis. This conference—“Global Rule of Law: Critical, Historical, and Philosophical Perspectives”—responds to that demand with an interdisciplinary exploration of global rule of law. A variety of scholars, including political scientists, legal scholars, historians, and philosophers, will explore a series of essential questions. How should we understand the idea of the rule of law? As a matter of theory and of practice, what is the relationship between law, justice, and coercion? In what ways, if at all, does the global rule of law differ from the rule of law within the state? Given the differences between international and domestic law, is the concept of the global rule of law appropriate? What lessons for furthering the global rule of law can we learn from the history of attempts to establish the rule of law domestically and internationally? What types of legal, political, and economic institutions are required to realize the rule of law, and how might those institutions be realized globally? What challenges, resistances and unintended consequences should we take into account when theorizing the global rule of law?

The participants include:
Professor Antony Anghie, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Associate Professor Başak Çalı, Koç University
Dr Carmen Pavel, King’s College, London
Associate Professor David Lefkowitz, University of Richmond
Associate Professor Devika Hovell, London School of Economics
Associate Professor, Frédéric Mégret, McGill University
Professor Karen Knop, University of Toronto
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo, University of Warwick
Dr Patrick Taylor Smith, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Dr Sinja Graf, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Assistant Prof Tan Hsien-Li, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore