Jean Philippe Robé
Sciences Po, Paris, Law, Faculty Member
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Jean-Philippe Robé is a practicing attorney and a legal scholar. He is a member of the New York and Paris bars and teaches at the SciencesPo Law School in Paris. He holds law degrees from the University of Lyon III Law School, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the European University Institute in Florence. His PhD thesis was written under the supervision of Gunther Teubner and Susan Strange.Jean-Phil... moreJean-Philippe Robé is a practicing attorney and a legal scholar. He is a member of the New York and Paris bars and teaches at the SciencesPo Law School in Paris. He holds law degrees from the University of Lyon III Law School, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the European University Institute in Florence. His PhD thesis was written under the supervision of Gunther Teubner and Susan Strange.Jean-Philippe Robé’s work concentrates on the role of law in the process of globalization and on the impact of globalization on the structure of the legal system. He has given numerous lectures on enterprise law and corporate governance in this specific context. In 2016, he was awarded the Prix du Cercle Montesquieu (the largest French association of General Counsels) for his book “Le temps du monde de l’entreprise – Globalisation et mutation du système juridique”. He is one of the 14 members of the Informal Expert Group on Company Law and Corporate Governance (ICLEG) advising the European Commission on these issues. His latest book Property, Power and Politics – Why We Need to Rethink The World Power-System was released in 2020 by Bristol University Press. It has been praised as “uniquely integrating the dynamics of state sovereignty, corporate globalization, property rights, and public as well as private law, to illuminate the workings of a multidimensional world power system that needs to be understood before it can be democratically governed.” (John Gerard Ruggie) edit
Summary of certain of the key points made in Property, Power and Politics, which appeared in LSE British Politics and Policy on November 2nd, 2020
Research Interests:
International Relations, International Relations Theory, Globalization, International Studies, International Business, and 15 moreInternational Law, Transnationalism, Law and Society, International Political Economy, World History, Global Studies, Law and Economics, Multinational Enterprises, Globalisation and Development, History of International Relations, Globalization and Governance, Multinational Corporations, Global Warming, Globalization and Transnationalism, and International Business & Globalization
The book is innovative in that it applies legal concepts to economic analysis. It explains that modern economies require the existence of a specific legal system to operate. The analysis builds on the prior work of institutional... more
The book is innovative in that it applies legal concepts to economic analysis. It explains that modern economies require the existence of a specific legal system to operate. The analysis builds on the prior work of institutional economists. It brings it forward by integrating what was missing: the legal component. Taking its distance from the economic analysis of law, it provides a legal analysis of economics. It is superior in this regard because real life economic actors must abide by legal rules. Their economic activity is dependent on the existence of rules making it possible, something present economic analyses neglect completely. Without States and the services they provide (protection services, a legal system, property rights, justice, roads, contract enforcement, and so on), economic activity cannot flourish. The book concentrates on the particular importance of property rights. They always played a key role in economic development. They now play a key role in the operation of a global economy because of the surge of multinationals built on the right of property concentrated via corporations. The role of corporate law in the reconfiguration of the power system from a State System to a Global Power System is explained.
The book is of interest for all social scientists interested in the operation of our present world economy and in globalization generally. It provides new insight on how to address global issues, in particular global climate change, which is a direct consequence of the spreading of a world economy over a divided State System.
The book is of interest for all social scientists interested in the operation of our present world economy and in globalization generally. It provides new insight on how to address global issues, in particular global climate change, which is a direct consequence of the spreading of a world economy over a divided State System.
