BRICS+ IN THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER!

IUC Secretary
23 lug
Tempo di lettura: 2 min

Who can propose a new order of peace for the world today? In the face of rampant war scenarios, a relaunch of international law is more important than ever. On the contribution to a new international order by the BRICS+, which today group together the ten most dynamic emerging economies, a conference of studies was held on 28 June 2025.

The conference, entitled “The Political Economy of Law in BRICS+”, saw the participation of scholars and professors from over twenty countries, and was promoted by the International University College of Turin (IUC) in collaboration with two other law schools, the Chinese University of Lanzhou, and the “S.S. Alexeev” private law study center of the Russian Federation.

Here, we propose the powerful introduction to the conference works by Professor UGO MATTEI, the 8 BRICS+ country case studies presented at the conference, and the lively debate that followed.

The country case presentations made by Christina Mosalagae (South Africa); Mariella Pittari (Brazil); Dmitry Chuprikov (Russia); Avi Singh (India); Liu Guanghua (China); Michael Sebsibe (Ethiopia); Amr Mohamed (Egypt); and Hamidreza Asimi (Iran)

The case studies were èrepared with the contribution of these IUC studebts:

Brazil (Paula Agustina Garcia & Matthew Skaiki);

Russia (Giovanni Bianchi & Hamza Tihouna);

India (Ashutosh Utsav & Hejrat Jalali);

China (Rozan Alfarra, Jinan El Nammoura & Abibatou Ceesay);

South Africa (Hudayfe Daror & Abdulhamid Zahidi);

Egypt (Amr Mohamed & Hawraa Hijazi);

Ethiopia (Michael Sebsibe & Alaa El Ainain);

Iran (Hamidreza Asimi & Vahid Akefi Ghaziani)

Several scholars from BRICS+ countries and beyond participated in the debate that followed Ugo Mattei’s introduction, Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s Lectio Magistralis, and the country case presentations: Liu Guanghua (Lanzhou), Lidia Mikheeva (Moscow), Talha Syed (Berkeley), Avi Singh (New Delhi), Leopold Spect (Vienna), Golnoosh Hakimdavar (USAID), Rafael Zanatta (São Paulo), Ignazio Castellucci (Teramo), Nidhi Srinivas (New School, New York), Aleksandar Stojanović, and Tong Shijun (Shanghai).