A new Global
Law Series has been announced at Cambridge:
The series provides unique perspectives on the way globalisation
is radically altering the study, discipline and practice of law. Featuring
innovative books in this growing field, the series explores those bodies of law
which are becoming global in their application, and the newly emerging
interdependency and interaction of different legal systems. It covers all major
branches of the law and includes work on legal theory, history and the
methodology of legal practice and jurisprudence under conditions of globalisation.
Offering a major platform on global law, these books provide essential reading
for students and scholars of comparative, international and transnational law.
Neil Walker’s Intimations
of Global Law is the first text in the Series:
A strain of law
reaching beyond any bounded international or transnational remit to assert a
global jurisdiction has recently acquired a new prominence. Intimations of
Global Law detects this strain in structures of international law claiming a
planetary scope independent of state consent, in new threads of global
constitutional law, administrative law and human rights, and in revived notions
of ius gentium and the global rule of law. It is also visible in the legal
pursuit of functionally differentiated global public goods, general conflict
rules, norms of 'legal pluralism' and new legal hybrids such as the global law
of peace and humanity law. The coming of global law affects how law manifests
itself in a global age and alters the shape of our legal-ethical horizons.
Global law presents a diverse, unsettled and sometimes conflicted legal
category, and one which challenges our very understanding of the rudiments of
legal authority.
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