Subject: Speaker Series lecture of June 4 with Alexandria Hill has been cancelled

    ACMS SPEAKER SERIES
We regret to inform you that our Speaker Series lecture of June 4 with Alexandria Hill has been cancelled due to unforeseen travel difficulties for our speaker. 

We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused. We do have another pop-up Speaker series lecture on June 12 with Dr. Jennifer Lander, and we look forward to seeing you there.
When: Wednesday, June 12, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Where: American Corner, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Lander

“The State has forgotten its reason for being”? A socio-legal analysis of extractive development and state transformation in Mongolia

Since the post-socialist transition in the early 1990s, Mongolia’s mineral wealth has been consistently promoted as the key to the country’s economic development. Over the past twenty-five years, national policy-makers and legislators in Mongolia have sought to create a legal and institutional framework for mining to attract foreign investment, whilst also addressing developmental priorities around national income generation, redistribution, socio-environmental impacts and participatory decision-making for local communities. 

This presentation discusses the challenges of this “balancing act” for the democratic state of Mongolia through an overview of key periods of legal and policy change in Mongolia’s mining regime and an analysis of the underlying socio-political catalysts for reform. Overall, I argue that the legal developments associated with Mongolia’s mining regime have a great deal to tell us about the dynamics of national state transformation in the global economy.
About the presenter: Dr. Jennifer Lander

She is Lecturer in Law at De Montfort University of Leicester (UK), where she teaches constitutional law. Her research focuses on the political and legal dynamics of national development in a globalising economy, with particular interest in understanding new patterns of state formation in frontier economies like Mongolia. Jennifer received her PhD in Law from the University of Warwick (UK) in 2017, and has a background in development studies and international relations. Prior to taking up her lectureship at De Montfort, she held an Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at Warwick (2017-2018).

She has conducted research in Mongolia since 2012, focusing on the way that social conflict in the mining sector has catalysed significant changes in national governance. Her forthcoming monograph Transnational Law and State Transformation: The Case of Extractive Development in Mongolia will be published with Routledge in late 2019.
About ACMS:
The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting scholarship in Mongolian Studies. 
The ACMS Speaker Series are organized in partnership with the U.S. Embassy and the Natsagdorj Library and provides an important platform for researchers engaged in Mongolia to share their experiences and findings with the public.  The event promotes information exchange on a variety of subjects related to Mongolia and is free and open to the public.  
For more information visit the ACMS website
American Center for Mongolian Studies, 642 Williams Hall, 255 S. 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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