Bücher der Reihe Global Law Series

This book provides a detailed exploration of the interrelations between globalization, borders and families through a legal lens embedded in sociological theories and empirical data. Its socio-legal nature will have a broad appeal for readers interested in family, immigration and labor law, as well as globalization and other studies.

Explains why and illustrates how global law emerges as a process of inclusion and exclusion. Suitable for graduate courses on theory of global law, sociology of legal globalisation, politics of globalisation processes, philosophy of law, political philosophy, global governance, and global and transnational constitutionalism.

A new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy, arguing that it is best understood through a transposition of key insights of classical legal sociology onto the form of global society. It will appeal to post-graduate students in law, political science and the sociology of law, as well as institutional transformation researchers. This title is also available as Open Access.

This book appeals to legal scholars and students interested in socio-legal studies, transnational law, environmental law, labour law, and legal theory. It introduces them to sustainability standards more commonly studied by political scientists and sociologists, and analyses their capacity to function as a form of transnational legal governance.

This major new work of constitutional theory looks at the relationship between constitutions and markets, and how it affects our understanding of citizenship and rights. It criticises the way in which thinking about markets at the national, European and global levels has deformed the democratic understanding of the constitution.

This volume - featuring eminent contributors from law, political science, sociology, anthropology, history and political theory - shows that law is often better understood as an entangled web than a coherent system, analysing the ways in which different legalities in domestic, transnational and international law are connected.

This volume - featuring eminent contributors from law, political science, sociology, anthropology, history and political theory - shows that law is often better understood as an entangled web than a coherent system, analysing the ways in which different legalities in domestic, transnational and international law are connected.

Since classical antiquity debates about tyranny, tyrannicide and preventing tyranny's re-emergence have permeated governance discourse. Yet within the literature on the global legal order, tyranny is missing. This book creates a taxonomy of tyranny and poses the question: could the global legal order be tyrannical? This taxonomy examines the benefits attached to tyrannical governance for the tyrant, considers how illegitimacy and fear establish tyranny, asks how rule by law, silence and beneficence aid in governing a tyranny. It outlines the modalities of tyranny: scale, imperialism, gender, and bureaucracy. Where it is determined that a tyranny exists, the book examines the extent of the right and duty to effect tyrannicide. As the global legal order gathers ever more power to itself, it becomes imperative to ask whether tyranny lurks at the global scale.