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2nd webinar: “Globalisation, sovereignty and the dark side of legitimacy”

YSI IUC Web-Seminars in Law, Economics & Finance

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March 29, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Piergiuseppe Monateri

Professor of Law at the University of Torino

Description

In the second webinar of the YSI IUC Web-Seminars in Law, Economics & Finance, professor Pier Giuseppe Monateri (University of Turin) will discuss some of the ideas from his book ''Dominus Mundi'':

This monograph makes a seminal contribution to existing literature on the importance of Roman law in the development of political thought in Europe. In particular it examines the expression 'dominus mundi', following it through the texts of the medieval jurists – the Glossators and Post-Glossators – up to the political thought of Hobbes. Understanding the concept of dominus mundi sheds light on how medieval jurists understood ownership of individual things; it is more complex than it might seem; and this book investigates these complexities. The book also offers important new insights into Thomas Hobbes, especially with regard to the end of dominus mundi and the replacement by Leviathan. Finally, the book has important relevance for contemporary political theory. With fading of political diversity Monateri argues “that the actual setting of globalisation represents the reappearance of the Ghost of the Dominus Mundi, a political refoulé – repressed – a reappearance of its sublime nature, and a struggle to restore its universal legitimacy, and take its place.” In making this argument, the book adds an important original vision to current debates in legal and political philosophy.

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Aleksandar Stojanović

Gbenga Oni

Christina Mosalagae

Ingrid Rafaele Rodrigues Leiria

Franco Donati

Lakshya Narula

Evelyn Sukadolnik

Wolfgang Theil

Giancarlo Grignaschi

fabio arfaioli

Beniamino Callegari

Margot Vermeylen

Ryan Foley