Call for Papers -- Legal Geography of Money

25-26 juin, Sciences Po Paris (France)

Submission deadline: April 12th at midnight (Paris time) via call@fedmoney.eu

In recent years, scholars have shown renewed interest in the geography of moneyand finance. While economic geography has long been examined how space shapescapitalism and its core/periphery dynamics, more recent work has turned to thespatial nature of money and finance. Globalization, for example, has famouslybeen propelled by the rise of global financial centers, which has reconfiguredthe relationship between these centers and their sovereign states, as well ascreated new peripheries in the process. Likewise, spatial inequalities arestructurally features that help explain how macroeconomic boom and bust cycleoccurs. From the era of the Gold Standard to neoliberal globalization, monetaryregimes have consistently structured the flow of money between different spaces,and accordingly co-constructed the significance of money as well as space.

Despite this surge in interest for the geography of money and finance, the role of law in the geography of money and finance remains relatively underexplored. While critical legal scholars, from American Legal Realism to the Law and Political Economy movement, have long been interested in understanding law as constitutive of capitalism, the spatial dynamics of money and finance remain a significant blind spot of contemporary critical legal thought. The conference seeks to foreground the constitutive role of space in critical legal engagements with the spatiality of capitalism.

We welcome submissions related, but not limited, to the following themes:

• the role of central banks in the legal geography of money;
• the role of the legal system more broadly in the geography of finance;
• the role of digital currencies and central bank digital currencies in the legal geography of money;
• the role of central bank currency swap arrangements in the global monetary order;
• the role of global legal norms in the global financial flows;
• ...