Globalisation And Legal Theory

Even local newspapers report on famines global warming human rights theInternet volatile financial markets and world sports. Globalisation is news.What does it ... » 

Even local newspapers report on famines global warming human rights theInternet volatile financial markets and world sports. Globalisation is news.What does it mean? What are the implications for understanding law? Can onelook at law intelligently from a global perspective? This book addresses suchissues by asking how traditional AngloAmerican legal theory can respond to thechallenges of globalisation. A series of critical indepth essays focus bothon familiar figures such as Bentham Holmes Hart Dworkin and Rawls and onlegal pluralism comparative law and postmodernism represented by Santos andCalvino. The author explores the uses and limitations of our heritage of legaltheory in dealing with the complexities of ordering relations at globalinternational transnational regional national substate and local levels.In the process he considers a wide range of issues such as Is law becoming detached from the nation state? Is humankind a single moral community? Why is drawing a general map of law in the world more difficult? Is depicting a legal order like depicting cities? What is the relationship between postmodernism and globalisation?The book ends with some provocative proposals for reviving generaljurisprudence and rethinking comparative law. Readable imaginative andchallenging this book should be read by students of jurisprudence comparativelawyers and anyone interested in issues of globalisation. «