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The Plurality Trilemma

A Geometry of Global Legal Thought

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Combines a comprehensive overview of recent developments in global legal thought with an innovative research framework
  • Traces the different approaches to global law back to their roots in social theory
  • Develops a provocative thesis on a meta-level of discourse pointing to the structural contingency and path dependence that global legal thinking owes to social and political theory

Part of the book series: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law (PPPTL)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Introduction: Theory, Practice, and Meta-Theory

    • David Roth-Isigkeit
    Pages 1-30
  3. Global Legal Thought and Plurality

    • David Roth-Isigkeit
    Pages 31-78
  4. Conclusion: Icarus

    • David Roth-Isigkeit
    Pages 257-279
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 281-287

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought. It argues that economic globalization and digitalization have induced significant insecurity about the future of human social organization. While traditional international law as a system based on the consent of national states is in the process of rapid adaptation to its new social preconditions, a variety of transnational regulatory levels compete for legal authority. In this process of change, there is more need than ever to guide the theoretical understanding because academic concepts have a crucial influence on the emerging practice of global law. This book highlights which choices are available and argues that global law requires taking a stand in mutually irreconcilable choices.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Normative Orders, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

    David Roth-Isigkeit

About the author

David Roth-Isigkeit is Research Fellow at Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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