Global Legal Pluralism A Jurisprudence of Law beyond Borders [Hardcover]

Proposes a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to grapple with the pluralist reality rather than ignoring it.This book comprehensively surveys today's complicated legal landscape and proposes a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to grapple with the pluralist reality rather than ignoring it, as both nation-state sovereigntists and international law triumphalists tend to do. The book addresses both public and private law subjects and the interactions of both formal law and informal norms. Accordingly, it provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel conceptualization of law and globalization.This book comprehensively surveys today's complicated legal landscape and proposes a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to grapple with the pluralist reality rather than ignoring it, as both nation-state sovereigntists and international law triumphalists tend to do. The book addresses both public and private law subjects and the interactions of both formal law and informal norms. Accordingly, it provides a broad synthesis across a variety of legal doctrines and academic disciplines and offers a novel conceptualization of law and globalization.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 because human activity and legal norms inevitably flow across such borders. 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 prlƒ#