Transnational Legal Processes: Globalisation and Power Disparities

, by Edited by Michael Likosky , Foreword by A. Vaughan Lowe

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ISBN: 9780406946744 | 0406946744
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/2002

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This work comprises 24 linked essays by leading transatlantic scholars in international law and the social sciences examining the sociolegal aspects of multi-jurisdictional legal techniques and trans-jurisdictional social phenomena. The contributors bring a range of disciplinary expertises including anthropology, economics, law and sociology to bear on key questions raised by transnational legal processes. The pieces explore legal developments in multiple territories including Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. The volume is designed as a general reader for courses on law and globalisation and related studies. The collection is made up of four parts, each addressing a central theme in transnational law and legal action (law-making and compliance), human rights, commerce and governance. The essays discuss such diverse problems as: the role of foreign actors in the ethnic conflicts of Kosovo and Rwanda; the power the United States and the UK wield over international capital markets; and the adaptability of existing public international law to deal with the challenges wrought by globalisation.

Foreword by A Vaughan Lowe

Preface

Editor's introduction

xvii

Table of statutes

xxxv

List of cases

xxxvii

PART I FRAMEWORKS 1

Reviving general jurisprudence

(20)

W Twining

General rather than global jurisprudence

(2)

Analytical jurisprudence

(6)

Normative jurisprudence

(2)

Legal reasoning

(1)

Historical, social scientific and interpretive inquiries

(2)

The role of comparative legal studies

(5)

References

(2)

One world: notes on the emerging legal order

(18)

L M Friedman

Globalisation of law

(2)

Substance and style

(2)

Risks and opportunities

(1)

Reflections in a mirror: global law at home

(3)

Globalisation of human rights

(5)

Select bibliography

(2)

Changing legal cultures

(18)

D Nelken

Legal change and social change

(4)

`Legal culture' as topic and explanation

(3)

Naming the present

(11)

Select bibliography

(5)

PART II STRATEGISING COMMERCIAL INTEGRATION

(128)

Opening remarks: legal constraints in the capitalist world-economy

(4)

I Wallerstein

Governing globalisation

(33)

F G Snyder

Introduction

(1)

Towards a theory of global legal pluralism

(6)

An example: the global toy industry

(2)

Economic globalisation and global legal pluralism

(18)

Conclusion

(6)

Select bibliography

(3)

Transnational transactions: legal work, cross-border commerce and global regulation

(16)

D McBarnet

Business, law and competitive advantage

100

(1)

Global legal work in action

101

(8)

Implications: legal work, cross-border commerce and global regulation

109

(3)

Conclusion

112

(2)

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112

(2)

Capital markets, globalisation and global elites

114

(21)

J Flood

Introduction

114

(1)

Globalisation

115

(1)

Capital markets

116

(11)

Capital markets and insolvency

127

(1)

Elites and capital markets

128

(4)

Conclusion

132

(3)

Select bibliography

133

(2)

Global markets, national law, and the regulation of business-a view from the top

135

(13)

E M Fox

Introduction

135

(1)

The problems

136

(1)

Case examples

137

(6)

Solutions

143

(1)

Lack of vision from the top

144

(2)

Conclusion

146

(2)

Select bibliography

146

(2)

Corruption and the global corporation: ethical obligations and workable strategies

148

(24)

S Rose-Ackerman

Current international efforts

149

(2)

The costs of `grand corruption'

151

(4)

Corruption and the obligations of multinational business

155

(8)

Next steps

163

(5)

Conclusions

168

(4)

Select bibliography

168

(4)

Law's elusive promise: learning from Bhopal

172

(15)

M Galanter

Bhopal and the transnational traffic in remedies

181

(6)

Select bibliography

183

(4)

PART III CHANGING STATES

187

(138)

Opening remarks: producing the transnational inside the national

189

(8)

S Sassen

Dollarizing state and professional expertise: transnational processes and questions of legitimation in state transformation, 1960-2000

197

(24)

Y Dezalay

B Garth

Select bibliography

211

(2)

The promise and peril of international order

213

(5)

R Abel

A response to Richard Abel's reading

218

(3)

Y Dezalay

B Garth

Cultural imperialism in the context of transnational commercial collaboration

221

(38)

M B Likosky

Introduction

221

(5)

The controversy

226

(2)

Colonial period

228

(2)

The current scene

230

(21)

Conclusion

251

(8)

Select bibliography

253

(6)

Sovereignty and citizenship in a world of migration

259

(16)

C Joppke

Sovereignty

260

(7)

Citizenship

267

(8)

Select bibliography

273

(2)

Patterns of African constitution in the making

275

(20)

U Mattei

Introduction

275

(2)

The issue of the state

277

(1)

Some background

278

(4)

Puntland state of Somalia

282

(4)

Legitimacy and participation

286

(2)

Professionalism

288

(2)

Conclusions

290

(5)

Select bibliography

292

(3)

From individual dignity to respect for jinkaku -- continuity and change in the concept of the individual in modern Japan

295

(21)

K Inoue

Introduction

295

(1)

The making of the post-Second World War Japanese Constitution

296

(2)

The birth of the concept of jinkaku

298

(2)

Modern education and the teaching of morals

300

(5)

The self improvement movement, jinkaku and Nitobe Inazo

305

(1)

The Taisho democratic movement and the democratisation of the concept of jinkaku

306

(5)

The diminishing role of jinkaku in the era of ultra-nationalism

311

(1)

Conclusion

312

(4)

Select bibliography

313

(3)

Transitional justice as liberal narrative

316

(9)

R Teitel

Law's history: the uses of the human rights trial

317

(2)

Narratives of transition

319

(6)

Select bibliography

324

(1)

PART IV PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CONTEXT

325

(166)

Opening remarks: Transnational legal process illuminated

327

(6)

H H Koh

An international legal regime and the context of conditionality

333

(22)

S F Moore

Reconfiguring the organisation West Africa

333

(4)

Land rights in Burkina Faso: multiple and conflicing claims and policies

337

(5)

Decentralisation conceived as a strategy of democratisation

342

(5)

Ideological expressions: a regional conference and an official report about the future

347

(3)

Conclusion

350

(5)

Select bibliography

352

(3)

Re-framing the legal agenda of world order in the course of a turbulent century

355

(23)

R Falk

Persisting doubts about international law

355

(4)

From 1899 to 1999: points of comparison

359

(6)

Structures and processes: constraining action

365

(8)

Conclusion

373

(5)

Select bibliography

375

(3)

Globalisation: a challenge to the nation state and to international law

378

(14)

S Hobe

Introduction -- The phenomenon of globalisation

378

(2)

Challenges to statehood

380

(1)

Transactions of private actors beyond state control

381

(2)

Challenges to international law

383

(2)

The answer: a new change of paradigm at the threshold of the twenty-first century? Toward a transnational law?

385

(7)

Select bibliography

389

(3)

Racism in civil conflict: domestic and global dimensions

392

(28)

J Mertus

Classification systems in Rwanda and Kosovo: potent for conflict

394

(7)

Internal dimensions

401

(3)

Global/trans-boundary dimensions

404

(10)

Conclusion

414

(6)

Select bibliography

414

(6)

The virtual sociality of rights: the case of `women's rights are human rights'

420

(20)

A Riles

Human rights as project

425

(3)

Human rights as representation

428

(3)

Rights inside out

431

(9)

Select bibliography

435

(5)

National legislation and the role of the government and the UNHCR in the determination of legal status of refugees in Kenya

440

(26)

Koki Muli

Introduction

440

(1)

The current legal framework

441

(4)

Laws dealing with restriction of aliens

445

(4)

The role of the government in the process of determination of refugee rights

449

(8)

The role of the UNHCR

457

(8)

Conclusions

465

(1)

Select bibliography

465

(1)

Geographies of hunger

466

(25)

C Powell

The US approach to economic rights under domestic law

468

(3)

The scope of US obligations under international law

471

(1)

The US approach to economic rights under domestic law

471

(5)

Cyclical nature of US recognition of economic rights

476

(3)

The dialectic of universality and particularity

479

(2)

Rethinking the structure of rights and responsibilities in the transnational context

481

(3)

Federalism and the right to food

484

(2)

Concluding observations

486

(5)

Select bibliography

488

(3)

Index

491

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