Drawing on a framework that emphasizes the relationship between the national and the international, the strategies of lawyers at various political levels and the circulation of ideas and people, this volume considers the rule of law as a field of action and discourse that emerges through complex relationships.

Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice will show students and scholars what it means in practice to talk about building transnational justice ? both on the side of economic regulation and on the side of human rights and humanitarian law. It links national and transnational processes, tracing the activities of lawyers with their successful and less successful strategies to build institutions and credibility for a transnational legal field. Examples include developments in international criminal justice, including the unsuccessful quest to establish universal jurisdiction for the...