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Frank J. Garcia

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Introduction: Globalization, Power, States, And The Role Of Law, Frank J. Garcia Mar 2018

Introduction: Globalization, Power, States, And The Role Of Law, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

On October 12, 2012 the Boston College Law Review and the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review held a joint Symposium entitled, “Filling Power Vacuums in the New Global Legal Order.” In three panel discussions and a keynote address by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a lively discourse on the impact of globalization on state power, the law, and the law’s ability to both reallocate and effectively restrain power ensued. This Introduction, and the works that follow in this symposium issue, document that discourse.

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Convergences: A Prospectus For Justice In A Global Market Society, Frank J. Garcia Jun 2016

Convergences: A Prospectus For Justice In A Global Market Society, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

This essay identifies six key legal, economic and governance convergences in 21st century global law and policy: the deepening of the global economy, the worsening of economic inequality, the thickening of global social relationships, the unification of international economic law, the emergence of global law, and the integration of global justice concerns into our ongoing conversation about development.  These convergences point towards the emergence of a global market society, with significant consequences for international economic law and its role in helping that emerging society to flourish. The essay concludes with one view of what it will mean to meet that …

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Theater, Law & Democracy As Living Speech: Reflections On The Work Of James Boyd White, Frank Garcia Sep 2015

Theater, Law & Democracy As Living Speech: Reflections On The Work Of James Boyd White, Frank Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

Presentation at a colloquium sponsored by the Boston College Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.

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