Areas of analysis

The principal focus of the symposium hinges upon three fundamental questions:

• Why is it possible to refer to an Anglo-American paradigm/model of neoliberalism?
• What are the visible and invisible roots of such a paradigm/model?
• What legacy has this paradigm/model left in the US and the UK and what influence has it had on an international level?

From an economic perspective, the relationship between neo-liberalism and liberalisation could be explored through questioning the convergence towards a single model/paradigm from a number of angles, including:

• financial structures and financing arrangements (the link between the financialisation and the marketisation of the economy)
• forms of organisation of banking systems and financial markets
• institutional forms of monetary policy
• economic policies and the role of public finances
• the relationship between the public and private sectors, and privatisation
• economic exchanges and international trade
• forms of corporate governance

From a legal perspective, the following points could be addressed:

• Law as a means to an end in a liberal project 
• (a) neoliberal right(s) - or legally defining (neo)liberalism
• the place of law in the ordoliberal project
• the international appeal and influence of the Anglo-American legal system
• the adaptation and resistance of Anglo-American and continental legal systems to neoliberalism
• the legal specificities of New Public Management - the influence of NPM’s influence on French law
• the influence of neoliberalism on human rights and fundamental liberties
• the role of domestic and/or European judges in reconciling fundamental liberties

More generally speaking, papers tackling the following points would be much appreciated:

• the shift from liberalism to neoliberalism
• links between political, economic and legal liberalism
• the points of convergence and divergence between ordoliberalism and neoliberalism generally and with regard to the EU’s public policies in particular

critiques of the (neo)liberal model