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Zusatztext Lyrical and erudite ... This is courageous, committed work—a unique contribution in the best of the critical tradition. Informationen zum Autor Horatia Muir Watt is Professor at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France. Klappentext This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or the conflict of laws) might serve as a heuristic for re-working our general understandings of legality in directions that respond to ever-deepening global ecological crises. Unusual in legal scholarship, the author borrows (in bricolage mode) from the work of Bruno Latour, alongside indigenous cosmologies, extinction theories and Levinassian phenomenology, to demonstrate why this field's specific frontier location at the outpost of the law - where it is viewed from the outside as obscure and from the inside as a self-contained normative world - generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally. Combining pragmatic and pluralist theory with an excavation of 'shadow' ecological dimensions of law, the author, a recognised authority within the field as conventionally understood, offers a truly global view. Put simply, it is a generational magnum opus. All international and transnational lawyers, be they in the private or public field, should read this book. Vorwort This book is a critical assessment of the status of private international law within the broader firmament of international law by one of the field’s leading commentators. Zusammenfassung This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or the conflict of laws) might serve as a heuristic for re-working our general understandings of legality in directions that respond to ever-deepening global ecological crises. Unusual in legal scholarship, the author borrows (in bricolage mode) from the work of Bruno Latour, alongside indigenous cosmologies, extinction theories and Levinassian phenomenology, to demonstrate why this field's specific frontier location at the outpost of the law – where it is viewed from the outside as obscure and from the inside as a self-contained normative world – generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally. Combining pragmatic and pluralist theory with an excavation of ‘shadow’ ecological dimensions of law, the author, a recognised authority within the field as conventionally understood, offers a truly global view. Put simply, it is a generational magnum opus. All international and transnational lawyers, be they in the private or public field, should read this book. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface v Introduction: Inklings 1 I. Nature as Alterity in Legal Form 5 II. Nature, Legality and Natural Law 8 III. Law, Bios and Bare Life 13 IV. Globalisation: A Very Short Story 14 V. The ‘Old Settlement’ and the Legal Summa Divisio 15 VI. Caveats: Law and Nomos; Lex and Ius 20 VII. Private International Law and its Double Scenography 23 VIII. Law’s Residues and the Shadow Story 28 IX. Bricolage, Interdisciplinarity and Method 29 X. What is Ecological about this Alternative Jurisprudential Design? 31 XI. Plan and Project 31 Part I Epistemology and Genealogy: Struggling for the Soul of Method I. An Initial Glimpse: Private International Law and its Inner Conflicts 45 II. An Example: Cross-Border Environmental Litigation 46 III. Down to Earth: Punctum 50 IV. Bird’s-Eye View: Studium 56 V. The Stakes in Method 61 A. Monism vs Pluralism and Theories of Truth 61 B. The Ecological Nature of Method 63 C. Approaching Alterity in Legal Form 65 Nature at the Stake 68 1. The Story of Origin 69 I. Genealogy and Methodology 71 A. The Consensual Tale 72 B. Frictions and Contradictions 77 II. Myth and Legacy 84 A. The Domestic Front: Irrelevance 85 B. The International Front: Self-Isolation 90 The Return of the Repres...
