Law, Political Economy and the Legal Geography of Money

June 25th & 26th, Sciences Po Paris (France)

June 25th [Day 1]

Amphithéâtre Claude Érignac

13 rue de l'Université

75007 Paris

9.10 — Welcome

9.15–10.15 — Keynote

"The Mirror of Production"
prof. Robert C. Hockett (Cornell Law School)

10.30–12.00 — Panel 1 — Theories and Histories of Money

Chair: Hockett

From monetary sovereignty/property to money as a commons (Goldmann)
Monetary sovereignty (Orellana Garcia)
History of ideas of core/periphery dynamics in central banking (Van Malleghem)

12.00–14.00 — Lunch

14.00–15.30 — Panel 2 — Central Bank Institutional Architecture

Chair: Goldmann

Legal protections for the periphery against the centre in the European System of Central Bank (van der Sluis)
Boundary politics and the dynamics of ECB empowerment and accountability (Olsson)
A Legal-institutional analysis of central bank independence in Chile (1990–2023) (Ahumada)
Central Banks as 'Guarantors of All Things' (Hjertaker & Iversen)

15.45–17.15 — Panel 3 — Global Hierarchies and Financial Subordination

Chair: Lupi

Legal geography of ECB policies (de Cesare)
Legal geographies of international financial subordination (Karg)
Swap lines and the global (dollar) system (Hamilton)
Law without Form: A Legal Genealogy of Monetary Hierarchy (Aydogus)
Pix and the spatial reorganization of money in Brazil (Braune Guerra)

June 26th [Day 2]

Room 931 (Building/Bâtiment C)

9 rue de la Chaise

75007 Paris

9.15–10.45 — Panel 4 — Payment Infrastructures

Chair: Van Malleghem

Payment law as shadow monetary law (Azzutti)
Fintech and the new legal geographies of credit (US/India) (Salunke)
Grounding Sovereignty in Financial Infrastructure (Villard Duran)
The illusion of state/market dichotomy and the market-making of stablecoins (Coburger)

11.00–12.30 — Panel 5 — Subnational, Sectoral, and Local Finance

Chair: Olsson

Municipal rights and the constitutional moments of financial risk (Mizes)
Municipal Bankruptcy and the Allocation of Fiscal Loss in China (Ma)
How (Green) Finance Accelerates the Privatisation of Environmental Policy in Brazil (Debucquois)
Captive yet Dominant: the Bank of Italy's developmental activism in the 1960s (Lupi)