Globalisation and Legal Theory

The text makes the case for a revival of general jurisprudence in response to globalisation.

William Twining (Author)

9780521605946, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 March 2000

296 pages
21.5 x 13.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.393 kg

This work brings together eight linked essays which make the case for a revival of general jurisprudence in response to the challenges of globalisation, explores how far the heritage of Anglo-American jurisprudence and comparative law is adequate to meeting the challenges, and puts forward an agenda for general jurisprudence and comparative law, especially in the English-speaking world in the first ten or twenty years of the millennium. The book is traditional in focussing on the mainstream of Anglo-American intellectual heritage and moderately radical in identifying the need for rethinking basic issues and putting forward a series of provocative propositions as a basis for discussion.

1. General and particular jurisprudence, three chapters in a story
2. Globalisation and legal theory, some local implications
3. Jeremy Bentham and general jurisprudence
4. Other people's power, the bad man and English positivism
5. Mapping law
6. Globalization and comparative law - the Country and Western tradition
7. Globalization, post-modernism and pluralism
Appendix: teaching about globalisation and law.

Subject Areas: Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]