Friday, August 28, 2015

Helfand: Negotiating State and Non-State Law: The Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism

Michael A. Helfand (Pepperdine Univ. - Law) has published Negotiating State and Non-State Law: The Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism (Cambridge Univ. Press 2015). Contents include:
  • Paul Schiff Berman, Non-state lawmaking through the lens of global legal pluralism
  • Ralf Michaels, What is law beyond the state? An introduction
  • Sally E. Merry, International law and sociolegal scholarship: toward a spatial global legal pluralism
  • Peer Zumbansen, The constitutional itch: transnational private regulatory governance and the woes of legitimacy
  • Helen Quane, International human rights law as a catalyst for the recognition and evolution of non-state law
  • Oren Perez & Daphne Barak-Erez, The administrative state goes global
  • Harlan Cohen, International precedent and the practice of international law
  • Joel A. Nichols, Religion, family law, and competing norms
  • Haider Ala Hamoudi, Wasfi H. Al-Sharaa & Aqeel Al-Dahhan, The resolution of disputes in state and tribal law in the south of Iraq: toward a cooperative model of pluralism
  • Nomi Maya Stolzenberg, Is there such a thing as non-state law? Lessons from Kiryas Joel
  • Michael A. Helfand, The persistence of sovereignty and the rise of the legal subject