Susan Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3793-6681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resisting punishment as a rights-claiming activity: Grounded normative theory, civil disobedience, and the right to protest
International human rights norms protect the right to freedom of assembly, yet states increasingly use the legal system to criminalize dissent. A key philosophical idea used to distinguish “legitimate” from “illegitimate” acts of civil disobedience is the punishment proviso, which insists activists must willingly accept the resulting legal consequences of their actions. Building on grounded normative theory (GNT), we assess whether and when this …
Global constitutionalism and/as enlightenment
This editorial considers how scholars interested in issues of global constitutionalism should approach the questions that have concerned those interested in enlightenment. Reflecting on the relocation of the journal’s editorial offices to Edinburgh, we foreground discussions from the historiography of the long eighteenth century that should be of interest to scholars of international relations, international law and political theory. Two main con…
Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism
Taking Global Constitutionalism as an agora, a platform for international interdisciplinary discussions this article asks a question about the state we are in with regard to the international order as an order that is not just a ‘rule-based order’ but also more substantially, a ‘legal order’ based on the rule of law. The topic is illustrated with reference to examples of ‘contested compliance’ i.e. objections to implementing international law and…
Private law, private international law and public interest litigation
Private actors and institutions, and by extension private law itself, are increasingly being forced to reckon with a multiplicity of challenges that extend beyond the domain of private law as it is traditionally conceived. They reflect threats to the global constitutional order and liberal constitutionalism, and threats to individual and collective fundamental rights and constitutional values. As a result, the role of private law in framing and f…
Climate change and the challenge to liberalism
In this editorial, we consider the ways in which liberal constitutionalism is challenged by and presents challenges to the climate crisis facing the world. Over recent decades, efforts to mitigate the climate crisis have generated a new set of norms for states and non-state actors, including regulatory norms (emission standards, carbon regulations), organising principles (common but differentiated responsibility) and fundamental norms (climate ju…
The pendulum swings back: New authoritarian threats to liberal democratic constitutionalism
The End of History
What the Documents Can’t Tell You: Participant Observation in International Relations
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Legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy: Reinforcing non‐standard work in South Korea
This paper engages the literature on the legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy in order to examine the role of law in limiting the labour rights of non‐standard workers. To do so, it analyses the effects of civil suits for obstruction of business against workers and trade union activists in South Korea. First embraced by liberal administrations as an alternative to authoritarian forms of labour control, civil suits for obstruction of busi…
Irrationality and Regulation: Constructing Mad Cow Knowledge in the US–South Korea FTA
This article explores the scientific rhetoric by which United States has attempted to promote its preferred Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’) risk-management policies with several key Asian trading partners. When Korean civil society rejected its government's decision to resume full trade of US beef products following Free Trade Agreement negotiations in 2008, the US government called these expressions ‘irrational’ and r…
The Labor Question: Considering Next Steps for Organized Labor in the United States
Right v. Privilege: Contesting Public Sector Labor Rights in the United States
Forcing Prison Labor: International Labor Standards, Human Rights and the Privatization of Prison Labor in the Contemporary United States
This article compares the private use of prison labor in the United States to the protections against forced labor in international law. The United States plays a prominent role in promoting labor rights and standards in its interactions with economic competitors such as China. Despite this, it violates its own international legal commitments both by allowing private companies to use prison labor and by allowing labor to occur within privately ru…
Regionalization: Collateral Benefits of Emergency Preparedness Activities
The regionalization process has been beneficial for LHDs and produced tangible and intangible benefits. Barriers to regionalization expansion should be addressed for additional collaborative ventures
Legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy: Reinforcing non‐standard work in South Korea
This paper engages the literature on the legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy in order to examine the role of law in limiting the labour rights of non‐standard workers. To do so, it analyses the effects of civil suits for obstruction of business against workers and trade union activists in South Korea. First embraced by liberal administrations as an alternative to authoritarian forms of labour control, civil suits for obstruction of busi…
Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism
Taking Global Constitutionalism as an agora, a platform for international interdisciplinary discussions this article asks a question about the state we are in with regard to the international order as an order that is not just a ‘rule-based order’ but also more substantially, a ‘legal order’ based on the rule of law. The topic is illustrated with reference to examples of ‘contested compliance’ i.e. objections to implementing international law and…
Forcing Prison Labor: International Labor Standards, Human Rights and the Privatization of Prison Labor in the Contemporary United States
This article compares the private use of prison labor in the United States to the protections against forced labor in international law. The United States plays a prominent role in promoting labor rights and standards in its interactions with economic competitors such as China. Despite this, it violates its own international legal commitments both by allowing private companies to use prison labor and by allowing labor to occur within privately ru…
Private law, private international law and public interest litigation
Private actors and institutions, and by extension private law itself, are increasingly being forced to reckon with a multiplicity of challenges that extend beyond the domain of private law as it is traditionally conceived. They reflect threats to the global constitutional order and liberal constitutionalism, and threats to individual and collective fundamental rights and constitutional values. As a result, the role of private law in framing and f…
Climate change and the challenge to liberalism
In this editorial, we consider the ways in which liberal constitutionalism is challenged by and presents challenges to the climate crisis facing the world. Over recent decades, efforts to mitigate the climate crisis have generated a new set of norms for states and non-state actors, including regulatory norms (emission standards, carbon regulations), organising principles (common but differentiated responsibility) and fundamental norms (climate ju…
Irrationality and Regulation: Constructing Mad Cow Knowledge in the US–South Korea FTA
This article explores the scientific rhetoric by which United States has attempted to promote its preferred Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’) risk-management policies with several key Asian trading partners. When Korean civil society rejected its government's decision to resume full trade of US beef products following Free Trade Agreement negotiations in 2008, the US government called these expressions ‘irrational’ and r…
Regionalization: Collateral Benefits of Emergency Preparedness Activities
The regionalization process has been beneficial for LHDs and produced tangible and intangible benefits. Barriers to regionalization expansion should be addressed for additional collaborative ventures
Regionalization: Collateral Benefits of Emergency Preparedness Activities
The regionalization process has been beneficial for LHDs and produced tangible and intangible benefits. Barriers to regionalization expansion should be addressed for additional collaborative ventures
Forcing Prison Labor: International Labor Standards, Human Rights and the Privatization of Prison Labor in the Contemporary United States
This article compares the private use of prison labor in the United States to the protections against forced labor in international law. The United States plays a prominent role in promoting labor rights and standards in its interactions with economic competitors such as China. Despite this, it violates its own international legal commitments both by allowing private companies to use prison labor and by allowing labor to occur within privately ru…
Right v. Privilege: Contesting Public Sector Labor Rights in the United States
Irrationality and Regulation: Constructing Mad Cow Knowledge in the US–South Korea FTA
This article explores the scientific rhetoric by which United States has attempted to promote its preferred Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’) risk-management policies with several key Asian trading partners. When Korean civil society rejected its government's decision to resume full trade of US beef products following Free Trade Agreement negotiations in 2008, the US government called these expressions ‘irrational’ and r…
The Labor Question: Considering Next Steps for Organized Labor in the United States
What the Documents Can’t Tell You: Participant Observation in International Relations
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy: Reinforcing non‐standard work in South Korea
This paper engages the literature on the legal geographies of labour and postdemocracy in order to examine the role of law in limiting the labour rights of non‐standard workers. To do so, it analyses the effects of civil suits for obstruction of business against workers and trade union activists in South Korea. First embraced by liberal administrations as an alternative to authoritarian forms of labour control, civil suits for obstruction of busi…
The pendulum swings back: New authoritarian threats to liberal democratic constitutionalism
The End of History
Climate change and the challenge to liberalism
In this editorial, we consider the ways in which liberal constitutionalism is challenged by and presents challenges to the climate crisis facing the world. Over recent decades, efforts to mitigate the climate crisis have generated a new set of norms for states and non-state actors, including regulatory norms (emission standards, carbon regulations), organising principles (common but differentiated responsibility) and fundamental norms (climate ju…
Private law, private international law and public interest litigation
Private actors and institutions, and by extension private law itself, are increasingly being forced to reckon with a multiplicity of challenges that extend beyond the domain of private law as it is traditionally conceived. They reflect threats to the global constitutional order and liberal constitutionalism, and threats to individual and collective fundamental rights and constitutional values. As a result, the role of private law in framing and f…
Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism
Taking Global Constitutionalism as an agora, a platform for international interdisciplinary discussions this article asks a question about the state we are in with regard to the international order as an order that is not just a ‘rule-based order’ but also more substantially, a ‘legal order’ based on the rule of law. The topic is illustrated with reference to examples of ‘contested compliance’ i.e. objections to implementing international law and…
Resisting punishment as a rights-claiming activity: Grounded normative theory, civil disobedience, and the right to protest
International human rights norms protect the right to freedom of assembly, yet states increasingly use the legal system to criminalize dissent. A key philosophical idea used to distinguish “legitimate” from “illegitimate” acts of civil disobedience is the punishment proviso, which insists activists must willingly accept the resulting legal consequences of their actions. Building on grounded normative theory (GNT), we assess whether and when this …
Global constitutionalism and/as enlightenment
This editorial considers how scholars interested in issues of global constitutionalism should approach the questions that have concerned those interested in enlightenment. Reflecting on the relocation of the journal’s editorial offices to Edinburgh, we foreground discussions from the historiography of the long eighteenth century that should be of interest to scholars of international relations, international law and political theory. Two main con…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law and economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Constitutionalism (4 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Human rights (4 works)