The Plurality Trilemma
A Geometry of Global Legal Thought
Authors: Roth-Isigkeit, David
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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David Roth-Isigkeit is Research Fellow at Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction: Theory, Practice, and Meta-Theory
Pages 1-30
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Global Legal Thought and Plurality
Pages 31-78
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Taming Plurality Through Formal Legal Rationality: Habermasian Approaches to Global Law
Pages 79-127
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Unleashing Conflict: Post-modern Luhmannian Approaches to Global Law
Pages 129-170
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Process and Harmonizing Principles: Dworkinian Approaches to Global Law
Pages 171-218
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Plurality Trilemma
- Book Subtitle
- A Geometry of Global Legal Thought
- Authors
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- David Roth-Isigkeit
- Series Title
- Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-72856-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-72856-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-72855-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-89217-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 287
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations
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