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Unpacking a Global Player: FIFA as a transnational legal problem - litigation, advocacy and norm-creation

Unpacking a Global Player: FIFA as a transnational legal problem - litigation, advocacy and norm-creation

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Unpacking a Global Player: FIFA as a transnational legal problem - litigation, advocacy and norm-creation
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<strong>CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE Jawaharlal Nehru University</strong> SEMINAR SERIES <strong>PEER ZUMBANSEN</strong> Professor of Transnational Law, Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute, King's College, London On <strong>Unpacking a Global Player: FIFA as a transnational legal problem - litigation, advocacy and norm-creation</strong> <strong>Abstract : </strong>The paper will, in its first part, explore the promise and challenge of adding "transnational law" to the existing canon of legal doctrinal fields, on the one hand, and legal theories, on the other. In the second part, it will use the current scandal around corruption and labour rights violations by FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association to discuss practical consequences of understanding law "as transnational". <strong>Friday, 27 November 2015</strong> <strong>About the Speaker:</strong> Peer Zumbansen is Professor of Transnational Law and inaugural Director of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute at King's College London, and the Convener of the Transnational Law LL.M. Pathway. Educated in Frankfurt, Paris and Harvard, he was Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto from 2004 until 2014. At Osgoode he founded and directed the Critical Research Laboratory in Law &amp; Society, and served as Associate Dean of Research, Graduate Studies and International Relations. His research focuses on corporate governance, private law theory, comparative and transnational law, European private law and legal education.

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