Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice
Author(s): YVES DEZALAY (Editor), Bryant Garth
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 30 Sept. 2011
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 328 pages
ISBN-10: 0415581184
ISBN-13: 9780415581189
Book Description
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 prosecution of human rights violators; the very successful efforts to build transnational trade and intellectual property regimes; and the relative success in building a European legal field. The introductory and concluding chapters by the co-editors, drawing on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, link the chapters together and explore the possibilities for a more institutionalized and unified transnational legal field � bridging the economic and corporate side with the human rights and humanitarian side. Addressing a range of international issues, Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice is a major contribution to the field of sociology of law, as well as to debates about global governance.
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About the Author
Yves Dezalay is a director emeritus of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. His books include Marchands de droit (Paris: Fayard, 1992) and Professional Competition and Professional Power, Lawyers, Accountants and the Social Construction of Markets (co-edited with D Sugarman) (London: Routledge, 1995). He has also co-authored four books with Bryant Garth., Bryant G Garth is Dean and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. He began his tenure as Dean in 2005. Prior to that time, he served for 14 years as Director of the American Bar Foundation in Chicago and four years as Dean of Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. His research focuses on the legal profession and on the globalisation of law.
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