Theorising the Global Legal Order

Hart Publishing has recently published Andrew Halpin and Volker Roeben (eds), Theorising the Global Legal Order (2009). As they explain:

This book aims to capture an exploratory approach to theorising the global legal order. Avoiding any brand loyalty to a particular academic perspective, it brings together scholars who contribute a variety of insights covering quite different topics and viewpoints. It sets itself the target of producing a distinctively legal theory of global phenomena, which is capable of illuminating the path of law as an academic discipline, as it confronts a bewildering array of novel situations and innovative ways of thinking about law. The broad base of perspectives found among the contributors, combined with a helpful commentary from the editors, makes the book an ideal Reader to introduce a subject that is becoming of increasing importance for academics, students and practitioners, in law and related fields.

The book's contents include:

• Andrew Halpin and Volker Roeben, ‘Introduction’
• H Patrick Glenn, ‘Cosmopolitan Legal Orders’
• William Twining, ‘Implications of “Globalisation” for Law as a Discipline’
• Stefan Oeter, ‘Theorising the Global Legal Order - An Institutionalist Perspective’
• Ko Hasegawa, ‘Incorporating Foreign Legal Ideas through Translation’
• Catherine Dupré, ‘Globalisation and Judicial Reasoning: Building Blocks for a Method of Interpretation’
• Ari Afilalo and Dennis Patterson, ‘Statecraft, Trade and Strategy: Toward a New Global Order’
• Oxana Golynker, ‘European Union as a Single Working-Living Space: EU Law and New Forms of Intra-Community Migration’
• Déirdre Dwyer, ‘The Domestic Enforcement of Supranational Rules: The Role of Evidence in EC Competition Law’
• Stephen Allen, ‘The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards a Global Legal Order on Indigenous Rights?’
• John Gillespie, ‘Developing a Framework for Understanding the Localisation of Global Scripts in East Asia’
• Nicholas Dorn, ‘Governance Through Corruption: Cosmopolitan Complicity’
• Christian Walter, ‘Decentralised Constitutionalisation in National and International Courts: Reflections on Comparative Law as an Approach to Public Law’
• Andrew Halpin and Volker Roeben, ‘Concluding Reflections’