Fault lines of globalization : legal order and the politics of A-legality / Hans Lindahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindahl, Hans, 1958- author.

Series:

Oxford constitutional theory.

Oxford constitutional theory

Oxford Constitutional Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International law.

Law and globalization.

International law--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (704 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question whether and how boundaries might individuate and thereby be constitutive features of any imaginable legal order has yet to be addressed in a systematic and comprehensive manner by legal and political theory. This book seeks to address this important omission, providing an original contribution to the debate about law in a global setting. Against the widely endorsed assumption that we are now moving towards law without boundaries, it argues that every imaginable legalorder, global or otherwise, is bounded in space, time, membership, and content.The book is built up around three mai

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; PART I: LEGAL ORDER; 1 Legality, Illegality, A-Legality: A Preliminary Analysis; 1.1 Reorienting the Problem of the Unity of Legal Orders; 1.2 Legality; 1.3 Illegality; 1.4 A-Legality; 1.5 Boundaries and Limits; 2 A Topology of Legal Orders in a Global Setting; 2.1 The Nomos of Nomadism; 2.2 The Frontiers of Roman Law; 2.3 Multinationals; 2.4 LexMercatoria; 2.5 The Law of Cyberspace; 2.6 Overlapping Legal Orders; 2.7 The Topography of Legal Space Revisited; 3 The Identity of Legal Collectives

3.1 Individuality and Identity3.2 The Collective as a Self and as the Same; 3.3 Collective Self and Alterity; 3.4 Implications and Caveats; 3.5 Exclusive Territoriality Affirmed; 3.6 An Enlarged First-Person Plural Perspective; PART II : LEGAL ORDERING; 4 A Genealogy of Legal Ordering; 4.1 Intentionality and Legal Ordering; 4.2 Disclosing Something as Something*; 4.3 We [Ought to] Jointly Disclose Something as Something* in-Order-to-φ; 4.4 We [Ought to] Jointly Disclose Something as Something* Anew in-Order-to-φ; 4.5 Ordering and Rationality; 4.6 Back to the 'First' Constitution

4.7 The Paradox of Representation4.8 The A-Legal Origins of (Il)legality; 5 A-Legality; 5.1 Estrangement; 5.2 The Normative Complexity of A-Legality; 5.3 Fault Lines; 5.4 Civil Disobedience; 5.5 Chaos; 6 Setting Legal Boundaries; 6.1 The Identification of a Collective as a Thing; 6.2 The Identification of a Collective as a Self; 6.3 From Identification to Reidentification; 6.4 Question and Response; 6.5 The Hiatus between Question and Response; 6.6 Collective Transformation; 6.7 The Emergence of a Novel Legal Collective; 6.8 Collective De-Identification; 7 A Politics of A-Legality

7.1 Inclusion and Exclusion as a Normative Problem7.2 Reciprocity and a Politics of Boundary-Setting; 7.3 The Non-Reciprocal Origin of Reciprocity; 7.4 Human Rights as the Rights of Strangers; 7.5 Dia-Logos; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-174764-5

0-19-151153-6

0-19-151152-8

OCLC:

861559521