PhD defence: Maj Lervad Grasten
During the last couple of decades, the rule of law has become a metanarrative in global governance. The meaning of the concept, however, is essentially contested. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography and narrative interviews, the thesis critically revisits the construction of the ‘rule of law’ in the context of transnational humanitarian governance in post-intervention Kosovo (1999-2015). Doing so, it reconstructs how the meaning of the rule of law was stabilized, made determinate and ‘knowable’ through its enactment in practice and the ways in which it was translated among a range of international legal experts. The findings of this ethnography point to the intrinsic relationship between the politics of translation and the power to define in the making of politics and social orders in contemporary global governance.
Supervisor:
Associate Professor Antje Vetterlein
Department of Business and Politics
Copenhagen Business School
Assessment Committee:
Professor MSO Anna Leander
Department of Management Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
Professor Marieke de Goede
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Professor Anne Orford
Melbourne Law School
The University of Melbourne
Thesis:
The thesis is available here
Reception:
The Doctoral School of Organisation and Mangement Studies will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence at the Department of Business and Politics, Steen Blichers Vej 22.