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Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition
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Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition
By
David B. Goldman
Description
What
can \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'globalisation\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' teach us about law in the Western tradition? This
important new work seeks to explore that question by analysing key
ideas and events in the Western legal tradition, including the Papal
Revolution, the Protestant Reformations and the Enlightenment.
Addressing the role of law, morality and politics, it looks at the
creation of orders which offer the possibility for global harmony, in
particular the United Nations and the European Union. It also
considers the unification of international commercial laws in the
attempt to understand Western law in a time of accelerating cultural
interconnections. The title will appeal to scholars of legal history
and globalisation as well as students of jurisprudence and all those
trying to understand globalisation and the Western dynamic of law and
authority.
• No
familiarity with law and other disciplines assumed: clearly expressed
for general readership • Written by a practising lawyer and
therefore reflects practical insights, not just innovative theory •
Interdisciplinary approach will appeal outside traditional law
readership to the general reader and to those with history,
sociology, international relations and political science backgrounds
Contents
Preface;
1. Introduction; Part I. Towards a Globalist Jurisprudence: 2.
Globalisation and the world revolution; 3. Law and authority in space
and time; Part II. A Holy Roman Empire: 4. The original European
community; 5. Universal law and the Papal Revolution; Part III. State
Formation and Reformation: 6. Territorial law and the rise of the
state; 7. The reformation of state authority; Part IV. A Wholly
Mammon Empire?: 8. The constricted universalism of the nation-state;
9. The incomplete authority of the nation-state; 10. The return of
universalist law: human rights and free trade; Part V. Competing
Jurisdictions: Case Studies: 11. The twenty-first century European
community; 12. International commercial law and private governance;
13. Conclusion.
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