The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup's Bold Proposal

In 1956, ICJ judge Philip Jessup highlighted the gaps between private and public international law and the need to adapt the law to border-crossing problems. Today, sixty years later, we still ask what role transnational law can play in a deeply divided, post-colonial world, where multinationals hold more power and more assets than many nation states. In searching for suitable answers to pressing legal problems such as climate change law, security, poverty and inequality, questions of representation, enforcement, accountability and legitimacy become newly entangled. As public and private, domestic and international actors compete for regulatory authority, spaces for political legitimacy have become fragmented and the state's exclusivist claim to be law's harbinger and place of origin under attack. Against this background, transnational law emerges as a conceptual framework and method laboratory for a critical reflection on the forms, fora and processes of law making and law contestation today. Title Contents Contributors Preface Intro Part I 1 Minas 2 Whytock 3 Schultz & Ridi Part II 4 Nowrot 5 Shaffer & Coye 6 Snyder et al 7 Grisel 8 Horrigan 9 Ali 10 Berman 11 Duval 12 Isailovic Part III 13 Cutler 14 Rajah 15 Affolder 16 Backer 17 SIngh 18 Michaels Part IV Epilogue Kanwar Name index Subject index