In this era of globalisation, different legal systems and structures no longer operate within their own jurisdictions. The effects of decisions, policies and political developments are having an increasingly wide-reaching impact. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than in the sphere of European Union law. This collection of essays contributes to the co-operative search for interpretative and normative grids needed in charting the contemporary legal landscape. Written by leading lawyers and legal philosophers, they examine the effects of law's de-nationalisation by placing European law in the context of transnational law and demonstrate how it forces us to rethink our basic legal concepts and propose an approach to transnational law beyond the dichotomy of national and international law.
Introduction Kaarlo Tuori and Suvi Sankari; 1. Transnational law: on legal hybrids and legal perspectivism Kaarlo Tuori; Part I. Law Beyond the State(s): 2. Transnational legal thought: Plato, Europe and beyond H. Patrick Glenn; 3. Beyond the archetypes of modern legal thought: appraising old and new forms of interaction between legal orders Enzo Cannizzaro and Beatrice I. Bonafe; 4. The cosmopolitan constitution Alexander Somek; 5. On liberalism and legal pluralism Ralf Michaels; Part II. European Law: 6. Rethinking EU law in the light of pluralism and practical reason Joxerramon Bengoetxea; 7. European human rights pluralism: notion and justification Samantha Besson; 8. Rethinking justice for the EU Sionaidh Douglas-Scott; 9. Legitimacy without democracy in the EU? Perspectives on the constitutionalisation of Europe through law Christian Joerges; Part III. The Law's Divisions: 10. Rethinking the public/private divide Hans Micklitz; 11. Private law in a post-national society: from ex post to ex ante governance Jan Smits; 12. Transnational public law in Europe: beyond the lex alius loci Giacinto della Cananea; 13. The law of the Internet between globalisation and localisation Oreste Pollicino and Marco Bassini; 14. Epilogue Neil Walker.
