Sociology of Transnational Constitutions
Subtitle: The Social Foundations of a Post-National Legal Structure
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781107038523
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence
Description: "This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and international courts and by the domestic transformation of international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of national societies, it examines the social processes that have locked national states into an increasingly transnational constitutional order, and it explains how the growth of global constitutional norms has provided a stabilizing framework for the functions of state institutions. The book adopts a distinctive historical-sociological approach to these questions, examining the deep continuities between national constitutional law and contemporary models of global law."--