Law in the Global(dis)Order: Multidisciplinary Reconfigurations in Times of Crises
- Colloque
- 18 mai 2026
- 10h-17h
On 18 May 2026, the Università degli Studi di Trieste will host the international conference Law in the Global (Dis)Order, bringing together leading scholars from across Europe to discuss the impact of geopolitical tensions, democratic backsliding, armed conflicts, and environmental crises on contemporary legal systems. Through interdisciplinary dialogue in international, EU, constitutional, criminal, and human rights law, the conference aims to explore the resilience of law in an increasingly unstable global context.
Presentation:
Law in the Global (Dis)Order
International Conference – 18 May 2026
Università degli Studi di Trieste – Aula Bachelet
The conference Law in the Global (Dis)Order will take place on 18 May 2026 at the Università degli Studi di Trieste (Aula Bachelet). Bringing together scholars from Italy, Germany, France, and Slovenia, the event is conceived as a focused international forum dedicated to examining the evolving relationship between law, crisis, and global instability.
The conference explores how contemporary legal orders are increasingly shaped by overlapping crises, including geopolitical tensions, democratic backsliding, armed conflicts, and environmental pressures. Against this backdrop, participants will reflect on a central question: can law still function as an effective instrument for governing risk, or is law itself becoming fragile under current global pressures?
The programme will open with a keynote lecture by Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg), whose participation highlights the conference’s international dimension and academic significance.
Structured around two interdisciplinary roundtables, the event aims to foster dialogue across several areas of legal scholarship, including international law, European Union law, constitutional law, criminal law, and human rights law. By encouraging exchanges across disciplines, the conference seeks to address the complexity of today’s “multiple crises” while avoiding fragmented or siloed approaches.
More broadly, the conference reflects and strengthens an emerging network of cooperation between partner institutions. It represents an important step toward developing long-term international research synergies on questions of legal resilience and governance in times of crisis.
Through this initiative, the organisers hope to contribute to ongoing debates on the capacity of legal systems to respond to uncertainty, instability, and global transformation.