These specially commissioned essays by prominent lawyers and philosophers analyse a range of approaches to legal authority beyond the state.

"At the dawn of the twenty-first century, international politics is increasingly governed by legal rules and institutions. Yet widespread skepticism of its valu

In recent decades, new international courts and other legal bodies have proliferated as international law has broadened beyond the fields of treaty law and dipl

This book traces the evolution of transnational legal authority in the course of globalization. Representative case studies buttress its conclusion that today t

We live in a world of legal pluralism, where a single act or actor is potentially regulated by multiple legal or quasi-legal regimes imposed by state, substate,