Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez

Biography

Jorge started his academic career teaching Introduction to Law in 1997 in his native Argentina (Universidad Nacional de La Plata). He moved to the United Kingdom where he was awarded his PhD in Law (Manchester). After teaching Jurisprudence in the School of Law, the University of Manchester, he joined MMU as a Lecturer in Law in 2013. He has also taught Law in Beijing, China-EU School of Law, in their Double Master Programme, Hong Kong, St Petersburg, and many other Universities.

Education

PhD, The University of Manchester

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

His research interests are varied but he is an expert on issues pertaining the crossover among  legal and political theory and public international law and relations. He has been researching and publishing about territorial disputes for more than 20 years.
His latest monograph "Cosmopolitanism, State Sovereignty and International Law and Politics: A Theory" (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2023/24) introduces a multidimensional analysis that assesses the phenomena of pluralism of pluralisms.
pluralism of pluralism means the acknowledgment of a variety of agents (individuals, communities and states) that may play different roles in their interrelations (host, participant, attendees and viewers), and hence, the recognition of the plurality of subjects at play. Furthermore, these agents and players may act within several contexts (local, regional and international) and their interrelations simultaneously exist in three realms (rational, empirical and axiological). To add to this intricacy, the many views (law, politics, philosophy and non-scientific theories) about agents, players, contexts and realms contain both a horizontal and vertical dimension that should take into account the two variables of time and space.
The monograph sketches a reconceived way of an approach to understanding the relationship between individuals, communities and states. Indeed, in order to coordinate separate and sovereign legal systems, additional and continued research is a task that deserves further exploration. The chapters attempt to take the first steps in creating that path.

Personal Interests

In its predecessor, "Territorial Disputes and State Sovereignty: International Law and Politics" (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020), the author used this multidimensional view to assess and explain several territorial disputes, including those in the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
The first of these three global monographs "Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue" (Routledge 2017) combined these interests in a unique form. He offered a solution to sovereignty conflicts such as Gibraltar, Falkland/Malvinas Islands, and Kashmir applying the international institution of shared sovereignty as viewed through the lenses of distributive justice principles.
Jorge has published worldwide several articles in three different languages—i.e. English, Spanish, and Russian. Furthermore, he has presented and delivered papers in several international seminars and congresses, mainly related to legal and political theory and international law. He is also member of several academic and professional organisations around the globe.

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• Dr Jorge's World

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