Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion

by Hans Lindahl

Overview

Protracted and bitter resistance by alter- and anti-globalisation movements shows that the globalisation of law transpires as the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion. Humanity is inside and outside global law in all its possible manifestations. But how is this possible? How must legal orders be structured, such that, even if we can now speak of law beyond state borders, no emergent global legal order is possible that does not include without excluding? Is an authoritative politics of boundaries possible that neither postulates the possibility of realising an all-inclusive global legal order nor accepts resignation or political paralysis in the face of the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion? These pressing questions guide this book, opening up a vast field of enquiry that demands integrating sociological, doctrinal and philosophical perspectives and insights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781316630273
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/06/2018
Series:	Global Law Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	474
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Hans Lindahl is Professor of Legal Philosophy at the Department of European and International Public Law, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and Professor of Global Law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Law and the globalisation of inclusion and exclusion; 2. Collective action and emergent global legal orders; 3. Three variations on the theme of legal unification and pluralisation; 4. Anti-globalisations and the nomos of the earth; 5. Authority and reciprocal recognition; 6. Asymmetrical recognition; 7. Struggles for representation in a global context; Bibliography; Index.