Working group Reimagining Prosperity Toward a New Imaginary of Law and Political Economy in the EU Add to calendar 2025-02-07 14:30 2025-02-07 16:30 Europe/Rome Reimagining Prosperity Cappella (Villa Schifanoia) and Online YYYY-MM-DD Print Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email When 07 February 2025 14:30 - 16:30 CET Where Cappella (Villa Schifanoia) and Online Organised by Department of Law The Private Law Working Group hosts an event with Marija Bartl, Professor of Transnational Private Law at UvA and EUI alumna, who will present her book 'Reimagining Prosperity. Toward a New Imaginary of Law and Political Economy in the EU'. Book abstract:The historic task of the European Union (EU) today, this book argues, is to articulate and institute a new imaginary of prosperity. Imaginaries of prosperity integrate societies around the shared pursuit of a prosperous future, rendering 'political-economic' questions as the main preoccupation of politics. The new imaginary of prosperity in the EU must be able to provide answers to contemporary societal challenges while also conjuring a world in which people want to live. Through analyses of several policy fields, the book shows that the EU has already made modest strides in fostering more caring consumption, circular products and technologies, sustainable industry, and fairer corporate activity. But the EU must go further and faster if it hopes to respond effectively to Europe's problems, while arresting another descent into tribalism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.About the speaker:Marija Bartl is Professor of Transnational Private Law at the Amsterdam Law School. She is also a Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law, the editor of European Law Open, a co-founder of the European Law Unbound – Society and the principal investigator of the ERC-funded research project ‘Law as a vehicle for social change: Mainstreaming Non-Extractive Economic Practices (N-EXTLAW)’. Scientific Organiser(s): Carolina Paulesu (EUI) Speaker(s): Marija Bartl (EUI - Department of Law) Discussant(s): Gildelen Aty-Biyo (EUI) Elena Calsamiglia (EUI) Tommaso Fia (University of Tübingen) Niall O’Shaughnessy (European University Institute) Carolina Paulesu (EUI) Chair(s): Niall O’Shaughnessy (European University Institute)