The Laws of Sovereignty - Upholding State Sovereignty in a Globalized and Digitalized World

No concept has been subject to more legal and theoretical debates than “sovereignty”. In modern times, state sovereignty is grounded in the principle of self-determination. For sovereignty to have any meaning or significance, states must represent their peoples and reflect national consensus, supported by some degree of common aspirations. A key aspect of sovereignty is the symbolic or mythic idea of who “the people” are and their inherent connection to one another. Sovereignty has come to embody and safeguard common historical experience, political and cultural tradition and heritage that bind a nation together.

The 21st century has created circumstances that have posed new and increasingly complex challenges to sovereignty. Certain pillars of sovereignty, previously taken-for-granted, have become vulnerable. Economic globalization has created many new opportunities, but it has also led to a global “race to the bottom”. The embrace of the “Washington Consensus” by the international legal community and adjudication forums has led to an erosion of state sovereignty and economic self-determination. Digitization and the growing presence of large platform-based businesses threaten to exercise “functional sovereignty” by policing transactions, moderating speech and adjudicating disputes. Furthermore, the question of sovereignty is increasingly present in the debates around the future of Europe.

Despite these challenges, sovereignty remains a key pillar in today’s world, as it both connects and represents a community with a shared common destiny. In this vein, the international conference will explore the contemporary challenges to sovereignty, ranging from its general philosophical underpinnings to globalization, integration and digitization.

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The Laws of Sovereignty - Upholding State Sovereignty in a Globalized and Digitalized World

Hosts

Student at the School of Law of MCC in Debrecen

Student at the School of Law of MCC in Miskolc

Opening Address

Director General, MCC

Organizer

Head of the School of Law at MCC and of the Barna Horváth Hungary Law and Liberty Circle

Moderators

Junior researcher at the Center for Modern Law Studies at MCC

Researcher at the Center for International Law at MCC

Junior researcher at the Center for International Law at MCC School of Law

Researcher at the European Center for Political Philosophy at MCC

Keynote Speaker

Canadian sociologist, renowned essayist, writer, public intellectual, and political commentator

Speakers

Professor of International Law at the Stanford University and Director of Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law as well as the Center on International Conflict and Negotiation

Professor of Philosophy and Director of the European Center for Political Philosophy at MCC.

Director of the Thomas More Institute in Paris

King’s Counsel and professor of law at the College of Europe, a visiting professor at King’s College, London, and a key speaker on arbitration

Professor at the University of California, Irvine

Professor of Law at the University of Milan Bicocca and legal advisor to the Italian Data Protection Authority

Rector of the University of Public Service and Professor of Law at the Széchenyi University where he teaches Roman Law

Abreu Professor in Law and Innovation at Catolica Global School of Law and the Centre on the Future of Law at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon

Catholic University of Chile

Renowned professor of Administrative Law at York University’s Osgoode Hall

Head of the Center for Private Law at MCC and Professor of Law at Eötvös Loránd University

Professor of Government and Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences

Legal officer in the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence at the International Criminal Court

Distinguished University Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University

Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca

Postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor of International Law at the School of Law of Peking University

Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute for the Information Society of the National University of Public Service

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