Books in the Global Law Series series

This book provides a detailed exploration of the interrelations between globalization, borders and families through a legal lens embedded in sociological theories and empirical data. Its socio-legal nature will have a broad appeal for readers interested in family, immigration and labor law, as well as globalization and other studies.

Explains why and illustrates how global law emerges as a process of inclusion and exclusion. Suitable for graduate courses on theory of global law, sociology of legal globalisation, politics of globalisation processes, philosophy of law, political philosophy, global governance, and global and transnational constitutionalism.

A new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy, arguing that it is best understood through a transposition of key insights of classical legal sociology onto the form of global society. It will appeal to post-graduate students in law, political science and the sociology of law, as well as institutional transformation researchers. This title is also available as Open Access.

A strain of law reaching beyond any bounded international or transnational remit to assert a global jurisdiction has recently acquired a new prominence. Intimations of Global Law detects this strain in structures of international law claiming a planetary scope independent of state consent, in new threads of global constitutional law, administrative law and human rights, and in revived notions of ius gentium and the global rule of law. It is also visible in the legal pursuit of functionally differentiated global public goods, general conflict rules, norms of 'legal pluralism' and new legal hybrids such as the global law of peace and humanity law. The coming of global law affects how law manifests itself in a global age and alters the shape of our legal-ethical horizons. Global law presents a diverse, unsettled and sometimes conflicted legal category, and one which challenges our very understanding of the rudiments of legal authority.

This book appeals to legal scholars and students interested in socio-legal studies, transnational law, environmental law, labour law, and legal theory. It introduces them to sustainability standards more commonly studied by political scientists and sociologists, and analyses their capacity to function as a form of transnational legal governance.

This book identifies the main challenges that processes of globalization pose for the study and practice of property law. It offers a clear analysis of legal scenarios implicating cross-border property rights, covering a range of resources, from land, goods, and intangible financial assets, to intellectual property, data, and digital assets.

This book explains the current weakness of democratic polities by examining deep paradoxes in constitutional democracy. It argues that democracy is frequently exposed to crisis because the terms in which it is promoted and justified allow anti-democratic movements, typically with a populist emphasis, to take shape and flourish.

This book is a study of global security law in motion, and is the first detailed socio-legal analysis of the UN Security Council's counterterrorism listing regime. It engages with current debates in international law, critical security studies, global governance, Science and Technology Studies, governmentality scholarship and socio-legal studies.

This major new work of constitutional theory looks at the relationship between constitutions and markets, and how it affects our understanding of citizenship and rights. It criticises the way in which thinking about markets at the national, European and global levels has deformed the democratic understanding of the constitution.

Protracted and bitter resistance by alter- and anti-globalisation movements shows that the globalisation of law transpires as the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion. Humanity is inside and outside global law in all its possible manifestations. But how is this possible? How must legal orders be structured, such that, even if we can now speak of law beyond state borders, no emergent global legal order is possible that does not include without excluding? Is an authoritative politics of boundaries possible that neither postulates the possibility of realising an all-inclusive global legal order nor accepts resignation or political paralysis in the face of the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion? These pressing questions guide this book, opening up a vast field of enquiry that demands integrating sociological, doctrinal and philosophical perspectives and insights.