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Global legal pluralism : a jurisprudence of law beyond borders / Paul Schiff Berman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berman, Paul Schiff, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legal polycentricity.
- Law and globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate, transnational, supranational and nonstate communities. Navigating these spheres of complex overlapping legal authority is confusing and we cannot expect territorial borders to solve all these problems. At the same time, those hoping to create one universal set of legal rules are also likely to be disappointed by the sheer variety of human communities and interests. Instead, we need an alternative jurisprudence, one that seeks to create or preserve spaces for productive interaction among multiple, overlapping legal systems by developing procedural mechanisms, institutions and practices that aim to manage, without eliminating, the legal pluralism we see around us. Global Legal Pluralism provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel conceptualization of law and globalization.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A world of legal conflicts
- The limits of sovereigntist territoriality
- Universalism and its discontents
- Towards a cosmopolitan pluralist jurisprudence
- Procedural mechanisms, institutional designs, and discursive practices for managing pluralism
- The changing terrain of jurisdiction
- A cosmopolitan pluralist approach to choice of law
- Recognition of judgments and the legal negotiation of difference
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139028615
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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