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- Combines a comprehensive overview of recent developments in global legal thought with an innovative research framework
- Traces the different approaches to global law back to their roots in social theory
- Develops a provocative thesis on a meta-level of discourse pointing to the structural contingency and path dependence that global legal thinking owes to social and political theory
Part of the book series: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law (PPPTL)
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought. It argues that economic globalization and digitalization have induced significant insecurity about the future of human social organization. While traditional international law as a system based on the consent of national states is in the process of rapid adaptation to its new social preconditions, a variety of transnational regulatory levels compete for legal authority. In this process of change, there is more need than ever to guide the theoretical understanding because academic concepts have a crucial influence on the emerging practice of global law. This book highlights which choices are available and argues that global law requires taking a stand in mutually irreconcilable choices.
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Book Title: The Plurality Trilemma
Book Subtitle: A Geometry of Global Legal Thought
Authors: David Roth-Isigkeit
Series Title: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72856-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72855-1Published: 22 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89217-7Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72856-8Published: 13 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2371
Series E-ISSN: 2946-238X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Political Philosophy