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Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change

Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change

Author: Gregory C. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107026117
Published In: November 2012
Format: Hardback , 264 pages
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his book brings together seven leading law and society scholars who apply an empirically grounded approach to the study of transnational legal ordering and its effects within countries. The book sets forth five dimensions of national change that are at stake and assesses three clusters of factors that determine transnational legal ordering's effects. Five empirical case studies illustrate how transnational legal ordering interacts with national law and institutions in different regulatory areas, covering comparative anti-money laundering, bankruptcy, intellectual property, competition, health, education, and municipal water law and policy in different developing countries. This book breaks new ground for our understanding of the extent and limits of transnational legal ordering in today's globalized world.

• Groundbreaking combination of conceptual work on transnational legal ordering and sustained field work involving different countries and regulatory domains

• Socio-legal study that brings together the empirical projects of six leading scholars of law and society studies

• Book is empirical, combining fieldwork, participant observation and (in one chapter) quantitative work

Notes on the Contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
1 Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change Gregory Shaffer	1
2 The Dimensions and Determinants of State Change Gregory Shaffer	23
3 Similar in Their Differences: Transnational Legal Processes Addressing Money Laundering in Brazil and Argentina Maíra Rocha Machado	50
4 Architects of the State: International Organizations and the Reconstruction of States in East Asia Terence C. Halliday	89
5 Neoliberalism, Transnational Education Norms, and Education Spending in the Developing World, 1983–2004 Minzee Kim and Elizabeth Heger Boyle	121
6 Access to Medicines and the Transformation of the South African State Heinz Klug	148
7 The Limits of Transnational Transformations of the State: Comparative Regulatory Regimes in the Delivery of Urban Water Services Bronwen Morgan	180
8 Conclusion: The Study of Transnational Legal Ordering Gregory Shaffer	212
References	217
Index	241