Mission Statement

The Center for Global Governance & Emerging Law’s mission is to bring multiple disciplines together to address and generate dialogue around future issues for society. By using an interdisciplinary approach, the CGGEL will facilitate the building of critical bridges for analyzing emerging issues, allowing law and governance sectors to act in a holistically informed manner. The CGGEL will serve as a convening entity for inclusive knowledge sharing and expertise building at international and national levels. 

· Convene experts, law makers and policy generators for events and information sharing surrounding future and emerging topics across disciplines that require legal and regulatory frameworks.

· Generate research and information regarding future and emerging areas across disciplines that will require legal and regulatory frameworks.

· Engage students from the social sciences, humanities and hard sciences for insightful interdisciplinary opportunities.

· Provide guidance to all relevant constituencies throughout the various future and emerging issues.

· Ensure novel and enduring collaborations between stakeholders and constituencies at the core of issues studied.

Global Governance and Emerging Law Trends & Book Launch Conference

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

12 – 2pm EST

Online via Zoom Platform Registration: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kQJUGtt-ST-BNLtSjTD12A

In barely a year, Covid-19 has transformed from a localized outbreak to a global pandemic and, in the process, dramatically altered the existence of individuals, nations and the international community. As we mark the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization designating Covid-19 as a global pandemic, it is imperative to reflect on the role of global governance in addressing current and emerging challenges to the international community, international law and policy.  

In this context, the Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law’s Global Governance and Emerging Law Trends & Book Launch conference will examine the many aspects of these trends in the legal and regulatory spheres. The conference will also serve as the official book launch for Prof. Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington’s new book, International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Implementation. The goal of the conference is to assemble diverse voices from across disciplines to take stock of the impacts of the pandemic on global governance and how this will parallel future challenges for global governance in the legal and regulatory spheres. 

Emerging into the Future: Trends in Law, Medicine and Technology Post-Pandemic
Thursday, February 18, 2021
12 - 3pm EST


The Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law’s Emerging into the Future conference examined the many aspects of the relationship between law, medicine and technology have been influenced by the pandemic. The conference also addressed the ways in which these lessons will potentially impact the future relationships between law, medicine and technology, including from the regulatory, philosophical and ethical perspectives. The goal of the conference was to assemble diverse voices from across disciplines to take stock of the impacts of the pandemic and to discuss what types of futures are being and can be created out in the pandemic’s aftermath. In this way, the conference  provided a forum to guide discussions of the future of law, medicine and technology that society is emerging into.

On Saturday, December 12, 2020, the Center for Global Governance and Emerging Law (CGGEL) convened the “New Neutrality: Emerging Laws in Nuclear Weapons, Outer-Space, and Cyberspace” conference. Hosted online due to Covid-19 pandemic-related restrictions, the two-panel conference was attended by those from North America, South America, Africa and throughout Europe.   

Please see the Publications & Research section for the event report.