Globalization is not only a process of unification, as has been assumed; It is a process of unification and fragmentation. This Global Law 2023 International Symposium at Tilburg University will rethink the globality of global law. It approaches this questions by focusing on four major architectures through which globalization is taking shape: global value chains, global states (in the plural), the global biosphere, and global digitalization. 

Each architecture will be discussed in a different panel. This approach allows for the intervention of different disciplinary perspectives, legal and otherwise. In-sofar as the global involves a reconfiguration of the spatiality of law and governance, the transformations of space driven by these different architectures are the unifying theme of the symposium. Conversely, the symposium engages with “architectures” of the global to emphasize that globalization processes involve a reconfiguration of spatiality. Each of the panels picks up on this unifying theme, but does so from the distinctive perspective of its theme.

Guarini Global Law & Tech Director for Policy and Practice Angelina Fisher will join a panel on ‘Global‘ Digitlization, scale and plurality.