Seminar Description

Charles Sampford will discuss an approach to interdisciplinary governance research that combines the insights of law, ethics, politics and economics. He will discuss its application to the various subjects of governance research (international, regional, national, sub-national, corporate and professional institutions) and, in particular to global governance challenges, in which weaknesses at one institutional "level" are exacerbated by weaknesses in other levels—such as the Global Financial Crisis and the "Global Carbon Crisis".

Programme

Charles Sampford was appointed Foundation Dean of Law at Griffith University in March 1991, Foundation Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance (the only Australian centre in law or governance to receive centre funding from the Australian Research Council) in 1999 and Foundation Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (a joint initiative of the United Nations University, Griffith, QUT and ANU) in 2004. Professor Sampford has written over 110 articles and chapters in Australian and foreign journals and collections ranging through constitutional law, legal philosophy, legal education, politics, applied ethics and econmics and has completed 25 books and edited collections for international publishers including OUP, Blackwell, Routledge, Cavendish and Ashgate. Foreign fellowships include the Visiting Senior Research Fellow at St John's College Oxford (1997) and a Fulbright Senior Award to Harvard University (2000) following which he was appointed a member of a task force co-chaired by Secretary Albright and Ambassador Geremek on Threats to Democracy.