The Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA). A Conversation with Bert Demarsin

In September 2023, Federica Violi and Antonio Cappuccio, assisted by Hannah Driesens, met with Bert Demarsin, Professor at KU Leuven and the driving force behind the Art, Law & Management Research Programme, dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinarity in the art industry. He also sits on the governing board of the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA). Spurred by the interest in this noteworthy example of the interplay between law and art, LawArt took the opportunity to explore with him the peculiarities of dispute resolution in the art industry

The Remains of the Day: The International Economic Order in the Era of Disintegration

The last two decades of the XX century have been marked by a vigorous acceleration of international economic integration both at a global and regional level. States accepted pervasive constraints on their national decision-making in the hope that stability and predictability would favor economic growth. This model of international economic integration, however, has recently shown worrying signs of ‘disintegration’. Disintegration manifests itself both as disintegration of the international legal regimes which compose the international economic order; and disintegration through law, namely the social, economic and environmental disintegration phenomena,triggered or at leastfacilitated by these regimes. Relying on the paradox integration/disintegration as an analytical framework, this article draws a blueprint of the various disintegration phenomena, which are further analyzed in the individual contributions to this Special Issue. It seeks to identify a relationship betweenthetwo dimensions of disintegration and detect possible correlation patterns. Last, after engaging with the different normative alternatives put forward by the contributors, it concludes by calling for a rethinking of the traditional approach to international economic integration. This reconceptualization should be premised on the full realization that the current model entails a great deal of environmental and social ‘hidden costs’