Following successful Juris North roundtable events exploring the work of Hans Kelsen in 2021 and 2022, contemporary non/anti-positivist legal theory in 2023, queer theory, leadership and inclusion in 2024, Juris North and ASAP (Academics Stand Against Poverty) are pleased to announce the theme of our 2024/2025 Roundtable Series: Global Justice. We invite participants to present work-in-progress that engages with an aspect of queer theory. Papers may approach this theme from either a doctrinal or theoretical perspective.

• To deepen and broaden the understanding of how to address partiality and unfairness in the world order
• To explore different stakeholder journeys and view
• To seek different perspectives and exchanges and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.

Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School

Any community or population consists of people who are different in many senses. Pluralism is a permanent feature. Similar to the civil society, the international community includes several agents of very different natures (sovereign states, cultures, subcultures, religions, individuals). People in civil societies may be weak or strong, wealthy or poor, classed as abled or disabled, and so on, while the international arena includes developed and non-developed nations, democratic and non-democratic legal systems, populated and not populated territories, sovereign states, pseudo-states, quasi-states, and other. Both in the case of civil societies and the international community, national and international agents, respectively recognize some inter-subject rules of conduct.
In any circumstances in which there are agents of different kinds their interrelations will introduce identity and conflict of interests. As a result, some criteria are needed for choosing the principles that can guarantee decision-making impartiality and the fairness of the outcome. Arguably, in the case of civil societies, many national legal orders already offer rules and mechanisms to secure normatively and effectively impartiality in the way in which different persons are considered and a certain degree of fairness (or at least, the ability to challenge unfair situations).
The global order is very different. Although there are international rules and mechanisms that in principle acknowledge equality of states and give central roles to non-governmental organizations and, to an extent, people (for example, European Union law), realpolitik shows clearly that impartiality in the way different international agents are considered is scattered (for example, there are some states that are “more equal” than others) and therefore, the fairness of the current world order is highly questionable.

1. The global order can progress from a pluralism of pluralisms to one version of pluralism that is widely sharable when no world order can be equally hospitable to all states, cultures, religions and persons it makes room for, or when no world order can please everyone in regard to how much inequality it engenders.
2. Sovereign states can cooperate together and accept limitations without sacrificing their sovereignty. Similarly, other international agents can cooperate together and accept limitations without compromising their freedom.
3. Individuals can be (i) partial for their state under rules of a fair competition and also be (ii) impartial in their defense and promotion of those fair rules themselves.

Open to all. Ideally, multi-disciplinary, transversal and inclusive (academics, policy-makers, people at large from different states, religions, genders, ethnicities, etc.).

The purpose of this special workshop is to showcase and develop works-in-progress rather than completed papers

We intend to follow up the special workshop with a set of roundtables and a conference. Inperson attendance will be encouraged. Each event will be hosted in a hybrid-format at Manchester Law School (United Kingdom) and/or Yale University (United States).

Roundtables Dates/Times: monthly meeting
October 2024: Date/Time TBC
November 2024: Date/Time TBC
December 2024: Date/Time TBC

The series will culminate in a one-day event in April/May 2025 where attendees can present papers that have been updated as a result of the series.
We are currently in discussions with Hart as to the possibility of publishing presented papers as an edited collection.

If you are interested in sending an abstract (up to 500 words) for consideration or simply taking part in our roundtables, please send your email to j.nunez@mmu.ac.uk by Friday 29th March 2024.

• Name;
• Institutional affiliation (if any);
• Subject line: Please indicate "SW Global Justice and Global Order.