Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0406946744 ISBN 13: 9780406946744

Casa editrice: Butterworths, 2002

Riassunto

24 linked essays by leading scholars in international law and the social sciences.

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Descrizione del libro

This work comprises 24 linked essays by leading transatlantic scholars in international law and the social sciences examining the sociolegal aspects of multi-jurisdictional legal techniques and trans-jurisdictional social phenomena.

Contenuti

Part I. Frameworks: 1. Reviving general jurisprudence William Twining; 2. One world - notes on the emerging legal order Lawrence M. Friedman; 3. Changing legal cultures David Nelken; Part II. Strategising Commercial Integration: 4. Opening remarks - legal constraints in the capitalist world economy Immanuel Wallerstein; 5. Governing globalisation Francis G. Snyder; 6. Transnational transactions - legal work, cross-border commerce and global regulation Doreen M. McBarnet; 7. Capital markets, globalization and global elites John Flood; 8. Global markets, national law, and the regulation of business Eleanor M. Fox; 9. Corruption and the global corporation Susan Rose-Ackerman; 10. Law's elusive promise - learning from Bhopal Marc Galanter; Part III. Changing States: 11. Opening remarks - producing the transnational inside the national Saskia Sassen; 12. Dollarizing state and professional expertise - transnational processes and questions of legitimation in state transformation, 1960–2000 Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth; 13. Comment - the promise and peril of international order Richard L. Abel; 14. Reply - a response to Richard Abel's reading Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth; 15. Cultural imperialism in the context of transnational commercial collaboration Michael B. Likosky; 16. Sovereignty and citizenship in a world of migration Christian Joppke; 17. Patterns of African constitution in the making Ugo Mattei; 18. From individual dignity to respect for Jinkaku - continuity and change in the concept of the individual in modern Japan Kyoko Inoue; 19. Transitional justice as liberal narrative Ruti Teitel; Part IV. Public International Law and Context: 20. Opening remarks - transnational legal process revisited Harold Koh; 21. An international legal regime and the context of conditionality Sally Falk Moore; 22. Re-framing the legal agenda of world order in the course of a turbulent century Richard A. Falk; 23. Globalisation - a challenge to the nation state and to international law Stephan Hobe; 24. Racism in civil conflict - domestic and global dimensions Julie Mertus; 25. The virtual sociality of rights - the case of 'women's rights are human rights' Annelise Riles; 26. National legislation and the role of the government and the UNHCR in the determination of legal status of refugees in Kenya M. Koki Muli; 27. Geographies of hunger Catherine Powell.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Butterworths
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0406946744
• ISBN 13: 9780406946744
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Redattore: Likosky Michael
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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