IUC Independent Policy Report: At the End of the End of History

Giuliano Castellano, Ugo Mattei, Reviglio Edoardo, Mastruzzo Giuseppe, Franco Bassanini, Calabresi Guido, Antoine Garapon, Tibor Varady, Eugenio Barcellona, Mauro Bussani, Moussa Djiré, Liu Guanghua, Hakimdavar Golnoosh, Haskell John, Kroncke Jedidiah J., Lollini Andrea, Lucarelli Alberto, Mamlyuk Boris N., Monti Alberto, Muro Sergio Ariel, Nicolò Domenico and Sartori Nicola
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Giuliano Castellano: CRG - Centre de recherche en gestion - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Ugo Mattei: IUC - International University College of Turin - International University College of Turin
Reviglio Edoardo: IUC - International University College of Turin - International University College of Turin
Mastruzzo Giuseppe: IUC - International University College of Turin - International University College of Turin
Franco Bassanini: Dipartimento di Diritto-Roma 1 - UNIROMA - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome]
Calabresi Guido: Yale Law School - Yale University [New Haven]
Antoine Garapon: IHEJ - Institut des Hautes Études sur la Justice - Ministère de la Justice [Paris, France]
Tibor Varady: Legal Studies Department, Central European University of Budapest - CEU - Central European University [Budapest, Hongrie]
Eugenio Barcellona: Dipartimento di scienze giuridiche ed economiche, Universita degli studi del piemonte orientale - Universita degli studi del piemonte orienta
Mauro Bussani: Facolta di Giurisprudenza - Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste
Moussa Djiré: Faculty of law and politics, Bamako University - Université de Bamako
Liu Guanghua: Law School, Lanzhou University - Lanzhou University
Hakimdavar Golnoosh: UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin
Haskell John: Law and social science faculty, SOAS, University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Kroncke Jedidiah J.: Yale Law School - Yale University [New Haven]
Lollini Andrea: UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
Lucarelli Alberto: University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
Mamlyuk Boris N.: UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin
Monti Alberto: Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici, Universita Bocconi di Milano - Universita Bocconi di Milano
Muro Sergio Ariel: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Nicolò Domenico: Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria - Universita Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria [Reggio Calabria]
Sartori Nicola: Law School, University of Michigan - University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] - University of Michigan System

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Abstract: The IUC Independent Policy Report was drafted by the IUC Legal Standards Research Group, organized by a Steering Committee chaired by Ugo Mattei (International University College of Turin), coordinated by Edoardo Reviglio (International University College of Turin) and Giuseppe Mastruzzo (International University College of Turin), and composed by Franco Bassanini (University of Rome "La Sapienza"), Guido Calabresi (Yale University), Antoine Garapon (Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice, Paris), and Tibor Varady (Central European University, Budapest). Contributors include Eugenio Barcellona (Eastern Piedmont University), Mauro Bussani (University of Trieste), Giuliano G. Castellano (Ecole Polytechnique Preg/CRG), Moussa Djir´e (Bamako University), Liu Guanghua (Lanzhou University), Golnoosh Hakimdavar (University of Turin), John Haskell (SOAS), Jedidiah J. Kroncke (Yale Law School), Andrea Lollini (Bologna University), Alberto Lucarelli (Federico II University), Boris N. Mamlyuk, (University of Turin), Alberto Monti (Bocconi University), Sergio Ariel Muro (Torquato di Tella University), Domenico Nicol`o (Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria), and Nicola Sartori (University of Michigan). The IUC Independent Policy Report argues for a radical change of perspective, capable of restoring the supremacy of the law over the economic system. It is not only about finance, nor is it only about economics or policy. In this sense a transnational set of normative principles is needed in order to establish a global legal system capable of controlling economic processes, rather than being controlled by them. Within this framework a series of policy proposals are presented in order to effectively implement a new system of global standards. The current Western standard of living is unsustainable. Should the rest share the model of development of the West, our planet will simply not be capable of resisting the growth in consumption and pollution. Within this fundamental setting of scarcity in resources, using the rhetoric of the end of history as the polar star for growth, development and ultimately happiness of the whole world is simply a cynical lie. We argue here for the beginning of a necessary process aimed at the development of a legal system that is much less about creating an effcient backbone for an exploitive economy and much more about a vision of civilization, justice and respect where the laws of nature and those of humans converge in a sustainable long-term philosophy. Principles of justice, responsibility and long term environmental protection, rather than short term economic contingency and strong interests must set the legal agenda. A new governance and bottom-up inclusive integration of knowledge-based economies (wherever located), which is crucial to the very survival of humankind, cannot happen without defning new terms of a widely accepted standard of long term justice in the transnational context, hence the urgency to conceive legitimate transnational legal structures and possibly some apparatus of "superlegality." The report is composed of fve sections. After having presented the pitfalls of the prevailing theoretical apparatus, an alternative cultural grid upon which policy actions should be shaped is presented. In this sense several normative proposals - revisiting the key characteristics of the current system - are offered aiming at acquiring a wider perspective over the actual global crisis

Date: 2009-07
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