The academic literature within law and elsewhere is replete with works addressing various aspects of globalization, and, within this literature, various theoretical perspectives have been presented. Nevertheless, there is a widely recognized lack of theoretical underpinning for the development of law and globalization. Part of the explanation for this state of affairs is that academic lawyers have tended to borrow from other disciplines rather than work through the consequences for a distinctively legal approach. Another contributory factor is that the explosion of new types of legal...