Posted on Monday, October 8, 2007
Dr. Edward Cohen, Westminster College associate professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science and Sociology, was an invited presenter at the sixth Pan-European International Relations Conference in Turin, Italy, Sept. 12-15.
The conference, "Making Sense of a Pluralist World," was sponsored by the Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR), a sub-group of specialists in international politics of the European Consortium of Political Research, the leading European-wide organization of political scientists. Approximately 1,000 participants represented nearly every European country, as well as countries in North and South America and the Middle East.
Cohen was invited by the organizer of a panel on "The Rule of Law under Security." His paper, "Commercial Law, Legal Pluralism and the Privatization of Governance in the Global Political Economy," was a continuation of his research project on the politics of international economic and commercial law.
"In this paper I tried to develop a framework for understanding the role of pluralism in shaping the use of power in international commercial law," Cohen said.
Cohen has been with Westminster since 1996. He earned his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College and a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Contact Cohen at (724) 946-7304 or e-mail cohenes@westminster.edu for additional information.
