We are a community of staff, PhD Fellows, students, and external members with shared interests in the study and practice of governance encompassing both scholarly and policy concerns. The Centre serves as a focal point for discussions concerning the theoretical, empirical, and normative dimensions of international law, institutions, and governance within St Andrews and elsewhere. We adopt an explicitly pluralistic approach drawing on insights from politics, law, economics, history, philosophy, ethics, and beyond. We aim to promote broad thinking and cutting-edge scholarship through our regular talks and workshops, working paper series, and student internship.

The CGLG emerged in the summer of 2020 as the successor to the Centre for Global Constitutionalism (CGC). The CGC was founded by Professor Anthony Lang Jr. in 2007 to serve as a catalyst for the study of constitutionalism at the national, regional, and global levels. This initiative grew out of previous programmes at the University of St Andrews, notably the “Rethinking the Rules” project and the Wilson Programme in Constitutional Studies. In this capacity, the CGC served as a site for interdisciplinary work focused on the diverse ways in which constitutionalism shapes the global political order. In its revised format, the CGLG retains this commitment to normatively-oriented and practically-minded scholarship.

For more information please visit the Centre for Global Law and Governance home page.

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Recent Submissions

  • Gift-giving and inheritance strategies in late Roman law and legal practice 

    Humfress, Caroline (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-06-07) - Book item
    In Roman law, an inheritance could be passed on according to the rules of intestate or testate succession. The Roman law of succession presents people with an enormous display of legal ingenuity. This chapter analyses some ...
  • Rules, power and constitutions : following Onuf 

    Lang, Anthony (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-05-23) - Book item
    This chapter explores the role of power in the theory of global constitutionalism. It draws on the work of Nicholas Onuf, whose launched constructivist IR theory. It borrows from Onuf the idea of rules and rule making, but ...
  • The Fergusson affair: Calvinism and dissimulation in the Scottish Enlightenment 

    Kidd, Colin Craig (2016-06-27) - Journal article
  • Thomas Hobbes: theorist of the law 

    Lang, Anthony F.; Slomp, Gabriella (2015-12-28) - Journal article
    This short article introduces the papers that follow on the topic of Hobbes as a theorist of the law. It provides an overview of Hobbes reputation as a theorist of law in both domestic and international theory. The paper ...
  • Magna Carta 

    Holt, James (Cambridge University Press, 2015-05) - Book
    3rd edition of classic work, with new introduction and additional material

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