Center on Global Legal Transformation

The Center on Global Legal Transformation was established in 2010 and its activities are devoted to enhancing our understanding of how law shapes and transforms global relations.

Law is a social scaling technology. Backed by the coercive power of states, it expands the scope of social ordering beyond small communities and has the potential to transform it. Law can be used as a means for self-governance, but also to advance powerful interests. How it is used is ultimately a matter of normative choice and political clout. CGLT’s mission is to further our understanding of how law alters economic, political and social relations in the context of globalization and how law and lawmaking is changed in this process.