Book Launch
A Perilous Imbalance:
The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance
Political economist Stephen Clarkson and legal scholar
Stepan Wood introduce their urgent new analysis of Canada’s experience of globalization.
Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Location: Private Dining Room, Executive Learning Centre,
Schulich School of Business, York University
Welcoming remarks: Interim Dean Jinyan Li, Osgoode Hall Law School; Dr. Stan Shapson, Vice-President Research & Innovation; Dr. Dawn Bazely, Director, Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability Commentary: Professor Craig Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School
Advance paperback copies of the book (UBC Press, 2010) available for purchase at a special price
Stephen Clarkson is a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Stepan Wood is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Core Faculty member of IRIS.
About the Book:
As citizens of a middle power, Canadians know how it feels to be objects of global forces. But they are also agents of globalization who have helped build structures of transnational governance that have highly uneven impacts on prosperity, human security, and the environment, often for the worse. This timely book argues that these imbalances need to be recognized and corrected.
A Perilous Imbalance situates Canada’s experience of globalization in the context of three interlinked trends: the emergence of a global supraconsitution, the transformation of the nation-state, and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state. It shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized governance, and advocates a revitalization of the Canadian state as a vehicle to pursue human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation, and create spaces for alternative forms of law and governance.
Lunch will be served, Please R.S.V.P by March 31, 2010 to Joanne Rappaport, jrappaport@osgoode.yorku.ca
