Globalization: Law and Policy
Series Editor: Larry Catá Backer, Dickinson School of Law,
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Globalization: Law and Policy builds an integrated body
of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical
debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series
focus on the consequential effects of globalization, including
emerging frameworks and processes for the internationalization,
legal harmonization, juridification, and democratization of law
among increasingly connected political, economic, religious,
cultural, ethnic, and other functionally differentiated governance
communities. Legal systems, their harmonization and incorporation
in other governance orders, and their relationship to globalization
are taking on new importance within a coordinated network of
domestic legal orders, the legal orders of groups of states, and
the governance frameworks of non-state actors. These legal orders
engage a number of important actors, sources, principles, and
tribunals - including multinational corporations as governance
entities, contract and surveillance as forms of governance that
substitute for traditional law, sovereign wealth funds and other
new forms of state activity, hybrid supra national entities like
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and
international tribunals with autonomous jurisdiction, including the
International Criminal Court, the World Trade Organization, and
regional human rights courts. The effects have been profound,
especially with respect to the role of states, and especially of
the United States as its long time position in global affairs
undergoes significant change. Comparative and transnational law
serve as natural nexus points for vigorous and sometimes
interdisciplinary approaches to the study of state and non-state
law systems, along with their linkages and interactions. The series
is intended as a resource for scholars, students, policy makers,
and civil society actors, and includes a balance of theoretical and
policy studies in single-authored volumes and collections of
original essays.
