International governance and law
Subtitle: state regulation and non-state law
By: edited by Hanneke van Schooten and Jonathan Verschuuren.
Contributors: Schooten, Hanneke van.; Verschuuren, Jonathan.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781847207272
Subjects: Soft law; Legislation; State, The
Description: Around the world, the role of national regulation is often hotly debated. This book takes as its starting point the fact that legislatures and regulators are criticized for overregulation and for producing poor-quality regulation which ignores input from citizens and stifles private initiative. This situation has enhanced the role of non-state law, in forms such as self-regulation and soft law. In this book, international scholars in various fields of law, as well as socio-legal studies, address the question to what extent non-state law currently influences state regulation, and what the consequences of non-state law are likely to be for state regulation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is non-state law? Mapping the other hemisphere of the legal world / Marc Hertogh; title: Philip Selznick : incipient law, state law and the rule of law / Martin Krygier; title: The point of law : the interdependent functionality of state and non-state regulation / Sanne Taekema; title: Can there be law without the state? The Ehrlich-Kelsen debate revisited in a globalizing setting / Bart van Klink; title: Ehrlich's non-state law and the Roman jurists / Olga Tellegen-Couperus; title: Environmental regulation and non-state law : the future public policy agenda / Neil Gunningham; title: The hardness of soft law in the United Kingdom : state and non-state regulatory activities related to nanotechnological development / Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung and Marloes van Amerom; title: Barristers beyond the law : state and non-state actors work in partnership to enforce legal and moral norms / Jenny Job; title: In a world without a sovereign : native title law in Australia / Francesca Dominello; title: Regulating the living will : the role of non-state law at the end of life / Oliver W. Lembcke; title: The influence of court judgments on non-state law / Hans Peters; title: Conclusions and challenges : towards a fruitful relationship between state regulation and non-state law / Hanneke van Schooten and Jonathan Verschuuren.