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Zusatztext The book is informative, replete with interesting insights, and builds on the flow of an elegant argument. The style is alert and the translation excellent.The argument is a very useful read and a welcome addition to the topic. The readers will enjoy it and learn from it. Informationen zum Autor Mireille Delmas-Marty holds the chair in Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law at the Collège de France. Klappentext From the viewpoint of the constitutional crisis in Europe, slow UN reforms, difficulties implementing the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court, and tensions between human rights and trade, author Mireille Delmas-Marty's "journey through the legal landscape" of the early years of the 21st century shows it to be dominated by imprecision, uncertainty, and instability. The early 21st century appears to be the era of great disorder. In the silence of the market and the fracas of arms, a world overly fragmented by anarchical globalization is being unified too quickly through hegemonic integration. How, she asks, can we move beyond the relative and the universal to build order without imposing it, to accept pluralism without giving up on a common law? Neither utopian fusion nor illusory autonomy, Ordering Pluralism is her answer. The book is both an epistemological revolution and an art, creating a common legal area by progressive adjustments that preserve diversity. Since an i Zusammenfassung In Ordering Pluralism, Mireille Delmas-Marty updates legal formalism and legal humanism in an attempt to achieve plural universalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionThe One and the Many: Pluralism in the Plural Part 1Processes of Interaction 1. Coordination through Cross-references 2. Harmonisation by Approximation 3. Unification by Hybridisation Part 2Organisational Levels 4. Regional Organisations 5. Global Organisation Part 3Speeds of Transformation 6. Asynchrony 7. Polychrony ConclusionIn the Land of Organised Clouds?...