Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition
Recurring Patterns of Law and Authority

Exploring what globalisation can teach us about Western legal tradition through seminal events.

David B. Goldman (Author)

9780521688499, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 February 2008

376 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 2 cm, 0.738 kg

'… a brave and conscientious effort to mark out a vast field that is certainly in need of mapping. It is likely to be of most interest as a preliminary survey, and also for its pluralistic vision of what law should be and for its thoughtful, incidental insights on regulatory questions. It offers a helpful overview in a crowded literature that has too often avoided any serious concern with the big picture sketched here.' Public Law

What can 'globalisation' teach us about law in the Western tradition? This important new work seeks to explore that question by analysing key ideas and events in the Western legal tradition, including the Papal Revolution, the Protestant Reformations and the Enlightenment. Addressing the role of law, morality and politics, it looks at the creation of orders which offer the possibility for global harmony, in particular the United Nations and the European Union. It also considers the unification of international commercial laws in the attempt to understand Western law in a time of accelerating cultural interconnections. The title will appeal to scholars of legal history and globalisation as well as students of jurisprudence and all those trying to understand globalisation and the Western dynamic of law and authority.

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Towards a Globalist Jurisprudence: 2. Globalisation and the world revolution
3. Law and authority in space and time
Part II. A Holy Roman Empire: 4. The original European community
5. Universal law and the Papal Revolution
Part III. State Formation and Reformation: 6. Territorial law and the rise of the state
7. The reformation of state authority
Part IV. A Wholly Mammon Empire?: 8. The constricted universalism of the nation-state
9. The incomplete authority of the nation-state
10. The return of universalist law: human rights and free trade
Part V. Competing Jurisdictions: Case Studies: 11. The twenty-first century European community
12. International commercial law and private governance
13. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Legal history [LAZ], Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]