Now available in paperback The world appears to be globalising economically, technologically, and, to a halting extent, politically. This process of globalisation raises the possibility of an international legal framework, a possibility which has gained pressing relevance in the wake of the recent global economic crisis. But for any international legal framework to exist, normative agreement between countries with very different political, economic, cultural, and legal traditions becomes necessary. This work explores the possibility of such a normative agreement through the prism of national...