Paul Schiff Berman

Global Legal Pluralism

A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Proposes a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to grapple with the pluralist reality rather than ignoring it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780521769822
• ISBN-10: 0521769825
• Artikelnr.: 34226456

Autorenporträt

Paul Schiff Berman is Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Before arriving at George Washington University, he was Dean and Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He has also served as the Jesse Root Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law and as a Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University in the Program in Law and Public Affairs. Berman has published two edited collections, authored a pioneering casebook on cyberlaw and written more than 25 scholarly articles and book chapters. He has also served on the Organizing Committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Mapping a Hybrid World: 1. Introduction
2. A world of legal conflicts
Part II. Retreating from Hybridity: 3. The limits of sovereigntist territoriality
4. From universalism to cosmopolitanism
Part III. Embracing Hybridity: 5. Towards a cosmopolitan pluralist jurisprudence
6. Procedural mechanisms, institutional designs, and discursive practices for managing pluralism
Part IV. Conflict of Laws in a Hybrid World: 7. The changing terrain of jurisdiction
8. A cosmopolitan pluralist approach to choice of law
9. Recognition of judgments and the legal negotiation of difference
10. Conclusion.