The Global Governance Centre is delighted to announce the publication of "Entangled Legalities Beyond the State" with Cambridge University Press.
The book is edited by Nico Krisch and presents findings from the SNSF-supported research project Interface Law: Legal Interactions between Spheres of Authority in Global Economic Governance hosted at the Global Governance Centre.
Entanglements – relations between norms from different origins that are neither integrated nor fully separated – are a core feature of the contemporary law beyond the state. Entanglements have been characteristic of law for much of its history, but they have long been neglected by legal scholars and theorists conceiving of the law through the prism of legal systems, argues Prof. Krisch.
While law is usually understood as an orderly, coherent system, this volume shows that it is often better understood as an entangled web. Bringing together eminent contributors from law, political science, sociology, anthropology, history and political theory, it also suggests that entanglement has been characteristic of law for much of its history.
The book shifts the focus to the ways in which actors create connections and distance between different legalities in domestic, transnational and international law. It examines a wide range of issue areas, from the relationship of state and indigenous orders to the regulation of global financial markets, from corporate social responsibility to struggles over human rights.
The edited volume uses these empirical insights to inform new theoretical approaches to law, and by placing the entanglements between norms from different origins at the centre of the study of law, it opens up new avenues for future legal research.
Entangled Legalities Beyond the State (also available open access)includes contributions by several faculty and researchers affiliated to the Global Governance Centre, including professors Nico Krisch and Grégoire Mallard, research assistants on the “Interface Law” project Francesco Corradini and Lucy Lu Leimers, as well as postdoctoral researcher Aurel Niederberger.
