Abstracts for the 2016 edition of the Planning, Law, and Property Right (PLPR) Conference can now be submitted online (until October 16, 2015). PLPR2016 will take place in Bern, Switzerland, on February 17-19, 2016. All abstracts will be reviewed through a double-blind review process. Proposed papers should speak to topics at the intersection of […]
Both concepts of “global public goods” and “global commons” are increasingly being used, both as powerful rhetorical devices in the policy discourse of international organizations and the debates of civil society, and as analytical and normative frameworks in international legal scholarship, economics and political theory. What difference does it make to express and frame global […]
The term ‘commons’ today is widely and extensively discussed within different theoretical frames of reference. Historically it refers to natural resources that we, the people, have in common. Resources that are not one’s property and are available to all: air, water, earth. Today, the term is used in very different ways in economic, social, and […]