Power and Pluralism in International Law: Private International Law and Globalization

Demonstrating the crucial role that private international law and legality has played and continues to play in shaping globalization, this book argues that the rules, institutions, and actors that make up the practice of private international law have been critical in translating political and economic power into legal regimes that have facilitated the processes of globalization.

These processes depend on two fundamental types of socio-political action – the legal structuring of emerging tra...