Negotiating State and Non-State Law
The Challenge of Global and Local Legal Pluralism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:2nd Jul '15
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Addresses the relationship between the nation-state and non-state law, considering how they can coexist and transform each other.
This volume addresses the relationship between the nation-state and various forms of non-state law, considering whether and to what extent state and non-state law can coexist and how each form of law seeks to influence as well as transform the other.Non-state law is playing an increasing role in both public and private ordering. Numerous organizations have emerged alongside the nation-state, each purporting to provide their members with rules and norms to govern their conduct and organize their affairs. The nation-state increasingly finds itself sandwiched, between two broad and contrasting categories of non-state law. The first - law above the state - captures legal systems that function across the territorial borders of nation-states. The second category - law below the state - includes forms of local customary, religious, and indigenous law. As these forms of non-state law persist and proliferate alongside the nation-state, the relationship between state and non-state law becomes more complex, multifaceted, and tense. This volume addresses this relationship considering whether and to what extent state and non-state law can coexist and how each form of law seeks to influence as well as transform the other.
ISBN: 9781107083769
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
Weight: 680g
362 pages