Stateless Law Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline [Paperback]

This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of stateless law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. From common, civil and international law perspectives, the collection focuses on the definition and role of law as an academic discipline, and hybridity in the practice and production of law. With contributions by a diverse and international group of scholars, the collection includes fourteen chapters written in English and three in French. Confronting the transnational challenge posed to the traditional theoretical and institutional structures that underlie the teaching and study of law in the university, the seventeen authors of Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline bring new insight to the ongoing and crucial conversation about the future shape of legal scholarship, education and practice that is emblematic of the early twenty-first century. This collection is essential reading for academics, institutions and others involved in determining the future roles, responsibilities and education of jurists, as well as for academics interested in Law, Sociology, Political Science and Education.Helge Dedek is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada, where he teaches courses in private law, legal history and legal theory. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn (Germany), two German State Examination degrees in law, and an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a Langdon H. Gammon Fellow. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law. He has been an invited Fellow at the K??te Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities Law as Culture at the University of Bonn and an invited Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Shlã&