Antonio Azuela (15 -26 Mar. 2010)
The course will address the way legal institutions like sovereignty, property, and planning, are put into question with the emergence of environmental and urban issues. The structure of the course will emphasize the relevance of different academic traditions for the understanding of specific issues in the larger agenda of law, society and the environment. Such issues include, inter alia: planning and the weberian tradition; the nomos of the earth and constitutionalism; the regulation of land use and different theories of property (from ‘social-function’ theories to new-institutional approaches on natural resources); the risk society and the durkheimian tradition; urban social processes and the “law and geography” movement; expropriations and globalization theories; homeownership and gender studies.
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