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The idea of the 'nation-state' has failed, Glenn argues, and a major shift in our understanding of the state is needed. He provides an original approach by situating cosmopolitanism in its historical context and demonstrating that the state is necessarily cosmopolitan in character, and has always been subject to transnational law-making.
List of contents
1 Introduction: Thinking the State; Part I: Cosmopolitan Origins; 2 Antecedents; 3 Persistence; Part II: Closure?; 4 A Territorial State?; 5 A Nation State?; Part III: Cosmopolitanism Sustained; 6 Common Laws; 7 Constitutionalism; 8 Institutional Cosmopolitanism; Part IV: The Contemporary Cosmopolitan State; 9 Globalization, Cosmopolitan Theory, and the State; 10 Cosmopolitan Citizens; 11 Cosmopolitan Sources I: Constitutionalism; 12 Cosmopolitan Sources II: Common Laws; 13 Cosmopolitan Sources III: Institutional Cosmopolitanism; 14 Cosmopolitan Thought; 15 Concluding Remarks; Bibliography
About the author
H. Patrick Glenn is the Peter M. Laing Professor of Law, McGill University, Montreal, and a former Director of the McGill Institute of Comparative Law. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy of Comparative law. He has been a Killam Research Fellow, a Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research, a recipient of the Quebec Government's Léon Gérin Prize in the Social Sciences, a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a holder of the Henry G. Schermers Fellowship of the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law and the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies. His book Legal Traditions of the World (OUP, 4th ed., 2010) received the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law. In 2011 he gave the General Course in Private International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law.
Summary
The idea of the 'nation-state' has failed, Glenn argues, and a major shift in our understanding of the state is needed. He provides an original approach by situating cosmopolitanism in its historical context and demonstrating that the state is necessarily cosmopolitan in character, and has always been subject to transnational law-making.
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The Cosmopolitan State is presented to us in an impressive way by H. Patrick Glenn...[it is a] must read!
