Eleventh Global Studies Conference

Abstract

This paper critically examines the limitations of existing international regimes and declarations attempting to create a transnational normative order of human life. In the context of a discussion of the biopolitical frameworks of Agamben and Foucault it will be argued that the establishment of a global anthropolaw is necessary due to a historically new dominant paradigm of biopolitics and potentially global implications of genetic engineering technology. The paper will demonstrate that the existing bioregimes are inherently insufficient for establishing a global law regulating genetic modifications of humans in the context of fragmented anthropolaw. The institutionalization of a global anthropoconstitution as a particular sectoral global constitution could, however, establish such a global framework outlining the normative standards for human genetic engineering.