Opening remarks by Mariana Assis:

I would like to start by suggesting a collective exercise of revisiting the objectives and questions initially raised by this seminar, so they remain on the background of our discussion of the relationship between emergency and rule of law as proposed by today’s reading. A relationship in which law asserts its capacity of maintaining itself in relation to an exteriority, that is to say by including within the legal system its own exclusion

This seminar is committed to unpacking the seemingly paradoxical fact that “despite the role of legal institutions in reproducing an unequal international order, demands for global justice continue to be shaped through legal claims.” Therefore, it seeks to address questions such as Continue reading…