Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law

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The CePTL is an academic research centre for multidisciplinary research on the dynamic relationship between law and politics in a globalizing world.

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CePTL brings together researchers and students interested in the 'Politics of Transnational Law'. Based at the VU university, Amsterdam, CePTL fosters an international network of scholars and students for critical reflections on the relationship between law and politics in a globalizing world.

Contemporary issues such as targeted killings, the rise of investment law, the law of cyberspace, the development and implementation of drones, the emergence of new accountability structures in environmental law, the usage of private military companies to ensure the security of merchant ships against piracy, the Arctic scramble, humanitarian interventions, and more generally processes of legalisation or even constitutionalisation of the international realm call for critical examinations of the interplay between law and politics in global governance structures.