Document Type

Chapter of Book

Publication Date

2019

Keywords

recognition, Levinas, tolerance, responsivity

Abstract

The world is a mess. Populism, xenophobia, and islamophobia; misogyny and racism; the closing of borders against the neediest—the existential crisis of modernity calls for a firm response from ethics. Why, instead of engaging with these problems through traditional ethics, worry about private international law, that most technical of technical fields of law? My claim in this chapter: not despite, because of its technical character. Private international law provides such an ethic, an ethic of responsivity. It provides us with a technique of ethics, a technique that helps us conceptualise and address some of the most pressing issues of our time. It is not only ethically relevant, it is itself an ethic. Let me explain.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Conflict of laws, International law--Moral and ethical aspects, Law--Philosophy

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