In January 2026, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, gave a extensively famous speech on the World Financial Discussion board, by which he described the present interval we’re dwelling via as a rupture on the earth order. How ought to we be interested by rupture – and continuity – in relation to the modern worldwide financial order? What is occurring to worldwide legislation, the needs to which it’s being put, its centrality as a expertise of governing over distance, its standing as a service for aspirations to multilateralism and universalism? Are we actually dwelling via a interval of rupture or merely the lack of religion of a hegemon in its personal worldwide authorized instruments? This episode tackles these questions, and extra, focusing notably on how Latin America is experiencing and reacting to this second of disaster – or, maybe, of alternative. Andrew Lang (College of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) is joined by Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin (FGV Sao Paulo College of Legislation, Brazil) and Nicolás M. Perrone (Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile).
A separate quick audio file captures the visitors’ suggestions for studying/viewing supplies.
Scholarship referred to within the episode consists of:
J.H.H. Weiler, ‘The Rule of Attorneys and the Ethos of Diplomats: Reflections on the Inside and Exterior Legitimacy of WTO Dispute Settlement’ (2001) 35 Journal of World Commerce 191
Fabio Morosini and Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin (eds), Reconceptualizing Worldwide Funding Legislation from the World South (Cambridge College Press, 2017)
Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin, ‘Worldwide Financial Legislation by Different Means: A Three-Degree Matrix of Chinese language Investments in Brazil’s Electrical Energy Sector’ (2021) 62 Harvard Worldwide Legislation Journal 105-36
Benjamin Allen Coates, Legalist Empire: Worldwide Legislation and American Overseas Relations within the Early Twentieth Century (Oxford College Press, 2016)
Nicolás M. Perrone and David Schneiderman, ‘Worldwide financial legislation’s wreckage: depoliticization, inequality, precarity’ in Emilios Christodoulidis, Ruth Dukes and Marco Goldoni (eds) Analysis Handbook on Vital Authorized Concept (Edward Elgar, 2019) 446-472 (ch 24)
Matias Spektor, ‘The World South Pushes Again’, New York Occasions, Jan. 11, 2026
Albert O. Hirschman, ‘Political Economics and Possibilism’ in Jeremy Adelman, Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen (eds), The Important Hirschman (Princeton College Press, 2013) 1–34
Tullo Vigevani and Gabriel Cepaluni, ‘Lula’s overseas coverage and the search for autonomy via diversification’ (2007) 28 Third World Quarterly 1309
The Falling Sky [La Chute du Ciel / A Queda do Céu] (2024), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32128962/
Amrita Narlikar, Poverty Narratives and Energy Paradoxes in Worldwide Commerce Negotiations and Past (Cambridge College Press, 2020)
José Miguel Ahumada and Ha-Joon Chang, ‘A brand new worldwide financial order for the twenty-first century: an agenda for industrial and commerce insurance policies from the World South’ (2025) 13 Assessment of Keynesian Economics 562–580
