Law without nations / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Douglas, Lawrence.

Umphrey, Martha Merrill.

Series:

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.

The amherst series in law, jursiprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International and municipal law.

Law and globalization.

Nation-state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The possibility of law in the absence of a nation would seem to strip law from its source of meaning and value. At the same time, law divorced from nations would clear the ground for a cosmopolitan vision in which the prejudices or idiosyncrasies of distinctive national traditions would give way to more universalist groundings for law. These alternately dystopian and utopian viewpoints inspire this original collection of essays on law without nations. This book examines the ways in which the growing internationalization of law affects domestic national law, the relationship between cosmopolitan legal ideas and understandings of national identity, and the intersections of identity and law based on the liberal tradition of jurisprudence and transnational influences. Ultimately, Law without Nations offers sharp analyses of the fraught relationship between the nation and the state—and the legal forms and practices that they require, constitute, and violently contest.

Contents:

Law without nations : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat and Martha Umphrey

Beyond "beyond the state" : re-thinking law and globalization / Jeremy Elkins

State law without its state / Karen Knop

Law without nation? : the ongoing Jewish discussion / Suzanne Last Stone

Western imperialism and Islamic law / Margaret Kohn

Ethnic cleansing, genocides and gross violations of human rights : the state versus humanitarian law / Elazar Barkan

Geertz's challenge : robust cultural pluralism in a liberal multinational empire / Richard A. Shweder.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777223

0804777225

OCLC:

714569440