Concept of Law from a Transnational Perspective [Paperback]

This book brings together the fruits of different traditions in legal philosophy and draws on them to develop a systematic thesis on the concept of law. The work uses a legal model to explore the underlying question of how the current phenomena of transnational law are best understood, in combination with an examination of the traditions of J??rgen Habermas's critical theory and H.L.A. Hart's analytic jurisprudence. This leads the author to conclude that the key to a fruitful dialogue and comprehensive understanding is to appreciate that the concept of law is not state-cantered and must reflect relationships to other legal systems.Detlef von Daniels is a Postdoctoral Fellow, at the Humanities Center at Harvard, USA. He has held positions as Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy of Law & Social Philosophy, Georg-August-Universit??t G??ttingen, and Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.