Claire Cutler, A. Claire Cutler

Private Power and Global Authority

Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy
Herausgeber: Smith, Steve

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
An examination of the historical and contemporary influence of private power in the global economy.

Main description
Transnational merchant law, which is mistakenly regarded in purely technical and apolitical terms, is a central mediator of domestic and global political/legal orders. By engaging with literature in international law, international relations and international political economy, the author develops the conceptual and theoretical foundations for analyzing the political significance of international economic law. In doing so, she illustrates the private nature of the interests that this evolving legal order has served over time. The book makes a sustained and comprehensive analysis of transnational merchant law and offers a radical critique of global capitalism.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualizing the role of law in the global political economy; 3. Theorizing the role of law in the global political economy; 4. Medieval Lex Mercatoria; 5. State-building: constituting the public sphere and disembedding the private sphere; 6. The modern law merchant and the Mercatocracy; Conclusion: transnational merchant law and global authority: a crisis of legitimacy; Bibliography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780521826600
• ISBN-10: 0521826608
• Artikelnr.: 22417534

Autorenporträt

A. Claire Cutler is Associate Professor of International Relations and Law at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She is joint editor of Private Authority and International Affairs (1999) and Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Conceptualizing the role of law in the global political economy
3. Theorizing the role of law in the global political economy
4. Medieval Lex Mercatoria
5. State-building: constituting the public sphere and disembedding the private sphere
6. The modern law merchant and the Mercatocracy
Conclusion: transnational merchant law and global authority: a crisis of legitimacy
Bibliography.