The Challenge of Inter-Legality

The first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven and what to do about it.

Jan Klabbers (Edited by), Gianluigi Palombella (Edited by)

9781108442381, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 May 2022

445 pages, 1 map
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.594 kg

The sovereignty of states to enact and enforce laws within their jurisdictions has been recognized since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. There are now, however, accepted global legal norms that transcend national sovereignty and hold states accountable for not including their domestic legal regimes. This volume is the first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven, and what to do about it. Coining the term 'inter-legality', this volume provides essays on the history, primary areas of inter-legality, the concept of jurisdiction, and normative developments prompted by inter-legality. Bringing together a wide range of contributors who stem from a variety of different academic backgrounds, this book aims to answer three questions: does inter-legality occur with some regularity? How does it affect traditional legal concepts such as 'jurisdiction' or 'legal order' or 'responsibility'? And what are the normative implications?

1. Introduction: situating inter-legality Jan Klabbers and Gianluigi Palombella
Part I. Opening the Field: 2. 'Formats' of law and their intertwining Gianluigi Palombella
3. Summum Ius, Summa Inuria: critical reflections on issues of responsibility, the legal form, inter-legality, and the limits of law Friedrich Kratochwil
4. Between or beyond legal orders: questioning the concept of legal order Sanne Taekema
Part II. Realities and Inter-legality Questions: 5. Why and what (state) jurisdiction: legal pluralism, individual equality and territorial legitimacy Samantha Besson
6. Inter-legality – citizenship – inter-citizenship Dimitry Kochenov
7. Trade and inter-legality Antonello Tancredi
8. Inter-legality and the protection of marine ecosystems Laura Pineschi
9. Managing inter-legality: conceptualizing the EU's interactions with international investment law Panos Koutrakos
10. The perils of complacency: the European human rights backlash Andras Sajó and Sergio Guiliano
11. Inter-legality and criminal law Alberto di Martino
Part III. Shaping Inter-Legality: 12. Shaping inter-legality: the role of administrative law techniques and their implications Edoardo Chiti
13. Global law as inter-contextuality and as inter-legality Poul Kjaer
14. International courts as inter-legality hubs Yuval Shany
15. Judging inter-legality Jan Klabbers
16. Theory, realities and promises of inter-legality: a manifesto Gianluigi Palombella
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Subject Areas: International criminal law [LBBZ], International economic & trade law [LBBM], Public international law [LBB], International law [LB], Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Law [L], International trade [KCLT]