Authority in transnational legal theory : theorising across disciplines

La 4e de couverture indique : "The increasing transnationalisation of regulation and social life more generally challenges the basic concepts of legal and political theory today. One of the key concepts being so challenged is authority. This discerning book offers a plenitude of resources and s...

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Other Authors : Cotterrell Roger (Éditeur scientifique), Del Mar Maksymilian (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Authority in transnational legal theory : theorising across disciplines / edited by Roger Cotterrell,... Maksymilian Del Mar,...
Published : Cheltenham [etc.] : Edward Elgar Publishing , cop. 2016
Physical Description : 1 vol. (X-429 p.)
Series : Elgar studies in legal theory
Subjects :
  • Introduction / Roger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del Mar
  • Part I. Conceiving authority: challenging and defending traditional approaches
  • 1. Authority, solid and liquid, in postnational governance / Nico Krisch
  • 2. Claims to authority, legal systems, and dynamic social phenomena / Keith Culver and Michael Giudice
  • 3. The modern state and the concept of authority / Michel Troper
  • 4. Law s authority and overlapping jurisdictions / Haris Psarras
  • Part II. Constitutionalism and pluralism
  • 5. The antinomies of constitutional authority / Neil Walker
  • 6. The evolution of global legal pluralism / Paul Schiff Berman
  • Part III. Historicising authority
  • 7. Informal authorities in European private law / Nils Jansen
  • 8. Imaginaries of authority: towards an archaeology of disagreement / Maksymilian Del Mar
  • Part IV. Methods: normative, sociological, and anthropological
  • 9. Transnational legal authority: a socio-legal perspective / Roger Cotterrell
  • 10. From authority to authorities: bridging the social / normative divide / Nicole Roughan
  • 11. When transnational authority is contingent: three African instances / Sally Falk Moore
  • Part V. The privatisation of authority and the international economy
  • 12. Theorising transnational authority: a private international law perspective / Horatia Muir Watt
  • 13. Expertise and authority in transnational governance / Sigrid Quack
  • Concluding reflections: transnational futures of authority / Roger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del Mar