Power and Pluralism in International Law: Private International Law and Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780367466787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 210 str.

Edward S. Cohen

Opis

This book argues that the rules, institutions, and actors that make up the practice of private international law have been critical in translating political and economic power into legal regimes that have facilitated the processes of globalization.

Spis treści

Part One – Theoretical Foundations: Private International Law and Globalization - Chapter 1 – Introduction: Private Law in a World of Globalization - Chapter 2 – The Theory and Practice of Transnational Legal Pluralism - Chapter 3 – Talking Past One Another: Private International Law and International Political Economy. Part Two – Private Law Technologies and the Construction of Globalization. - Chapter 4 – The Technologies of Private International Law I: Contract and Party Autonomy. - Chapter 5 – The Technologies of Private International Law II: The Pluralism- Harmonization Dynamic. - Chapter 6 – The Technologies of Private International Law III: International Commercial Arbitration and the Private Settlement of Disputes. - Chapter 7 - International Investment Law and Investor-State Arbitration: Incorporating Private Law Technologies into Public Law. Part Three – Conclusion. - Chapter 8 - PIL and Power in the Contemporary Political Economy: Contention Amidst Cooperation. Preface Bibliography

O autorze

Edward S. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, USA.　 He currently resides in the Boston, MA area where he is Visiting Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Suffolk University