Transnational Law Rethinking European Law and Legal Thinking [Hardcover]

This book examines the effects of law's de-nationalisation by placing European law in the context of transnational law.This collection of essays examines the effects of law's de-nationalisation by placing European law in the context of transnational law. It shows us how transnational law forces us to rethink our basic legal concepts and proposes an approach beyond the dichotomy of national and international law.This collection of essays examines the effects of law's de-nationalisation by placing European law in the context of transnational law. It shows us how transnational law forces us to rethink our basic legal concepts and proposes an approach beyond the dichotomy of national and international law.In this era of globalisation, different legal systems and structures no longer operate within their own jurisdictions. The effects of decisions, policies and political developments are having an increasingly wide-reaching impact. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in the sphere of European Union law. This collection of essays contributes to the co-operative search for interpretative and normative grids needed in charting the contemporary legal landscape. Written by leading lawyers and legal philosophers, they examine the effects of law's de-nationalisation by placing European law in the context of transnational law and demonstrate how it forces us to rethink our basic legal concepts and propose an approach to transnational law beyond the dichotomy of national and international law.Introduction Kaarlo Tuori and Suvi Sankari; 1. Transnational law: on legal hybrids and legal perspectivism Kaarlo Tuori; Part I. Law Beyond the State(s): 2. Transnational legal thought: Plato, Europe and beyond H. Patrick Glenn; 3. Beyond the archetypes of modern legal thought: appraising old and new forms of interaction between legal orders Enzo Cannizzaro and Beatrice I. Bonaf?; 4. The cosmopolitan constitution Alexander Somek; 5. On liberalism and legal pluralism Ralf Michaels; Part II.l#v