Laws and Societies in Global Contexts Contemporary Approaches

Author: Eve Darian-Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521130714
Published In: March 2013
Format: Paperback , 428 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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This text seeks to situate socio-legal studies in a global context. Law and society scholarship in the United States and elsewhere typically assumes one legal system and one society and explores the relationship between them. Such a narrow endeavor perpetuates a Western international relations model that too often conflates law, culture and the nation-state. A more global socio-legal perspective engages with multiple laws and societies within and across national borders and recognizes diverse socio-legal systems based on very different historical and cultural traditions, interacting on multiple local, national and global levels. This more global perspective also reveals an array of transnational issues including regional conflicts, genocide, mass immigration, environmental degradation, and climate change that have consistently defied resolution via conventional international system of governance. The approach to global legal pluralism outlined here seeks to provide a framework for envisioning new global governance regimes that move beyond state-based solutions to deal with trenchant transnational challenges.

• Provides an introduction to a global socio-legal perspective

• Foregrounds global and transnational legal processes and how these impact people in their everyday lives

• Includes chapter discussions followed by suggested reading lists and excerpts from selected articles

List of Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	x
1. Introduction: Sociolegal Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century	1
Brief Description of Law and Society Scholarship	1
The Book’s Three Objectives	6
What Is a Global Sociolegal Perspective?	12
Obstacles to Embracing a Global Sociolegal Perspective	15
Chapter Outline and Format	20
List of Suggested Readings	21
2. Interconnected Themes and Challenges	39
Law as (Multi)cultural Artifact	40
Overcoming Legal Orientalism	48
Aspirations of Global Governance	51
List of Suggested Readings	55
3. Producing Legal Knowledge	97
The Science of Law	98
Aesthetics, Networks, Affects	101
Decolonizing Legal Knowledge	107
List of Suggested Readings	109
4. Reimagining Legal Geographies	167
Spaces, Times, Interlegalities	168
Relational Properties and Sovereignties	174
Law in the World	179
List of Suggested Readings	182
5. Securing Peoples	243
Human Rights as an Ethics of Progress	244
Globalization, Violence, and Transitional Justice	249
Human Security in the Twenty-First Century	257
List of Suggested Readings	263
6. Re-racializing the World	314
Race in Global Sociolegal Perspective	316
Racializing Religion	322
Environmental Apartheid – Toxins, Floods, Diseases	327
List of Suggested Readings	334
7. Conclusion: The Enduring Relevance of Law?	378
Bibliography	385
Index	421