Law without nations
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
Series: The amherst series in law, jursiprudence, and social thought; Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780804771696
Description: 'Law without nations' examines the ways in which the growing internationalization of law affects domestic national law, the relationship between cosmopolitan legal ideas and understandings of national identity, and the intersections of identity and law based on the liberal tradition of jurisprudence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law without nations : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat and Martha Umphrey; title: Beyond "beyond the state" : re-thinking law and globalization / Jeremy Elkins; title: State law without its state / Karen Knop; title: Law without nation? : the ongoing Jewish discussion / Suzanne Last Stone; title: Western imperialism and Islamic law / Margaret Kohn; title: Ethnic cleansing, genocides and gross violations of human rights : the state versus humanitarian law / Elazar Barkan; title: Geertz's challenge : robust cultural pluralism in a liberal multinational empire / Richard A. Shweder.