Workshops | The Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative
Workshops for the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative are held throughout the year and give scholars an opportunity to share their work in a supportive and collegial environment. Each year, scholars working on a variety of traditional legal topics come together to explore how their analyses can benefit from the application of a vulnerability lens. Some topics recently considered include: globalization; labor, and the legal organization of work; the limits of social justice; business and corporate structures; the role of the family; and the need for environmental justice. Workshops are structured to allow for extended and meaningful participation by non-presenters and are open the public.
The Contradictions in EU Sustainability Law
During this talk, Dr. Kate O’Reilly will explore the contradictions in EU sustainability law using the Right to Repair as a case study. Taking the ordoliberal foundations of the EU supranational legal order as my starting point, O’Reilly will position the Right to Repair Directive (RRD), as both a consumer law and sustainability measure, in the (neo)liberal economic constitution of the EU’s social market economy. Through vulnerability theory, the RRD can be framed not as a step towards circularity but as a reinforcement of the inequalities and market-based governance structures that undermine the EU’s commitment to a just transition for a sustainable Europe. O’Reilly plans to think further on the insights that vulnerability theory can bring on the institutional structure of dependency in the EU order and on the creation of an EU society around the collective interests of two social groups: consumers and workers.
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