Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law

The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law offers a comprehensive compendium for the field of Transnational Law by providing a unique and unparalleled treatment and presentation in an area that has become one of the most intriguing and innovative developments in legal doctrine, scholarship, theory, as well as practice today. With a considerable contribution from and engagement with social sciences, the Handbook features numerous reflections on the relationship between transnational law and legal practice.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• I. Foundations


• 1. Transnational Law: Theories and Applications


• Peer Zumbansen


• 2. Normative and Legal Pluralism: A Global Perspective


• William Twining


• 3. Transnational Law and Economic Sociology


• Sabine Frerichs


• 4. Out of Sight: Transnational Legal Cultures


• Helge Dedek


• 5. The Post-Modern Normative Anxiety of Transnational Legal Studies


• Giulia Leonelli


• II. Fields


• 6. Transnational Constitutionalism


• Christopher Thornhill


• 7. Transnational Administrative Law


• Karl-Heinz Ladeur


• 8. Transnational Criminal Law


• Prabha Kotiswaran and Nicola Palmer


• 9. Transnational Health Law


• Aziza Ahmed


• 10. Recognizing Transnational Refugee Law


• Satvinder Juss


• 11. Transnational Climate Law


• Natasha Affolder


• 12. Transnational Food Law


• Matthew Canfield


• 13. International Investment Law as Transnational Law


• Nicolás Perrone


• 14. Transnational Antitrust Law


• Hannah L. Buxbaum


• 15. Transnational Mining Law


• Sara Seck


• 16. The Standardization of Oil and Gas Law: Transnational Layers of Governance


• Djakhongir Saidov


• 17. Law and Development


• Amanda Perry-Kessaris


• 18. Transnational Space Law


• Kevin Madders


• 19. Transnational Internet Law


• Chris Marsden


• 20. Transnational Commercial Law


• Shahla Ali


• 21. Transnational Arbitration Law


• Florian Grisel


• 22. Transnational Law and Conflict of Laws: A Japanese Perspective


• Dai Yokomizo


• 23. Transnational Sports Law


• Antoine Duval


• 24. Transnational Contract Law


• Klaas Hendrik Eller


• 25. Transnational Property Law


• Priya S. Gupta


• 26. Transnational Tort Law


• Cees van Dam


• 27. Transnational Family Law


• Claire Fenton-Glynn


• 28. Architects, Landscapers and Gardeners in the Transnational Futures of International Labour Law


• Adelle Blackett


• 29. Transnational Corporate Governance


• Dionysia Katelouzou and Peer Zumbansen


• 30. Transnational Art Law - Maps and Itineraries


• Vik Kanwar and Jaya Neupaney


• III. Legitimacy and Politics of Transnational Regulatory Governance


• 31. Transnational Migration Law: Authority, Contestation, Decolonization


• Sara Dehm


• 32. Contextualization as a (Feminist) Method for Transnational Legal Practice


• Farnush Ghadery


• 33. Queering the Transnational: Law and Sexuality


• Dipika Jain


• 34. The Social Question in a Transnational Context


• Alexander Somek


• 35. The Problem of the Enterprise and the Enterprise of Law: Multinational Enterprises as Polycentric Transnational Regulatory Space


• Larry Catá Backer


• 36. Reclaiming Sovereignty: Resistance to Transnational Authority and the Investor-State Regime


• A. Claire Cutler


• 37. Transnational Sustainability Governance and the Law


• Phillip Paiement


• 38. Terrorism and Transnational Law: Rules of Law Under Conditions of Globalization


• Cian C. Murphy


• 39. Democracy and Human Rights Adjudication in the Inter-American Legal Space


• Rene Urueña


• 40. The Global Governance Implications of Private International Law


• Horatia Muir Watt


• 41. Stakes of the Right to Food in the Politics of Transnational Law


• Naoyuki Okano


• 42. Climate Change Governance, International Relations and Politics: A Transnational Law Perspective


• Stephen Minas


• 43. Global Social Indicators and their Legitimacy in Transnational Law


• Mathias Siems and David Nelken


• IV. Methodologies: Challenges and Approaches


• 44. Transnational Law and Legal Positivism


• Michael Giudice and Eric Scarffe


• 45. With, Within, and Beyond the State: The Promise and Limits of Transnational Legal Ordering


• Gregory Shaffer and Terence Halliday


• 46. Transnational Law and Feminist Legal Theory


• Ratna Kapur


• 47 Transnational Law and the Ethnography of Corporate Social Responsibility


• Laura Knöpfel


• 48. Transnational Law and Literatures: A Postcolonial Perspective


• Amanda Lagji


• 49. Representing Transnational Law: Drone Warfare and Transnational Legal Text


• Jothie Rajah


• V. The Transnational Legal Profession and Legal Education


• 50. Beyond Borders and Across Legal Traditions: The Transnationalization of Latin American Lawyers


• Manuel A. Gómez


• 51. 'Africa Needs Many Lawyers Trained for the Need of their Peoples'


• Struggles over Legal Education in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana


• John Harrington and Ambreena Manji


• 52. Transnational Legal Education in China


• Stephen Minas


• 53. Transnational Legal Education


• Eve Darian-Smith

About the author

Peer Zumbansen is the inaugural Professor of Business Law at McGill University, Faculty of Law. From 2014-2020, he held the Inaugural Chair in Transnational Law at King's College London and served as Founding Director of the Transnational Law Institute, and before that held a Canada Research Chair at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He is co-author of Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law (2010, with G.P. Calliess) and editor of The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup's Bold Proposal (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Peer Zumbansen, Peer (Professor of Business Law Zumbansen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2021
• EAN: 9780197547410
• ISBN: 978-0-19-754741-0
• No. of pages: 1248
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Comparative, International Law, comparative law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal system: general, Legal systems: general