Multipolarity, Civilizations and Universality in International Law

Date: Monday, April 28, 2025

Time: 2-3:30 pm ET

Location: Furman Hall Room 212 and via Zoom

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About the event:

The international legal order is fragmenting into multiple “geo-legal orders,” in which the interpretation and operation of international law will increasingly depend on the spheres of influence of leading states and political groupings. This raises a basic question: how will a multipolar international order work? What normative constructions will emerge to bind the new geo-legal orders together? Dr. Malcolm Jorgensen, a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, will share his current research in progress.

 About the speaker:

Malcolm Jorgensen is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. His work focuses on comparative international law and the law and politics of international order.  He is the author of American Foreign Policy Ideology and The International Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020; foreword by Anthea Roberts).  He is currently co-director of a research project on comparative international legal policy, which investigates the national, regional and transnational political approaches shaping international legal order. He previously served as a legal adviser in the Australian Foreign Ministry.