Negotiating State and Non-State Law

Michael A. Helfand is an associate professor at the Pepperdine University School of Law as well as the associate director of the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies. Helfand is an expert on religious law and religious liberty, focusing on how US law treats religious law, custom, and practice. A frequent author and lecturer, he has published in numerous law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the New York University Law Review, and the Duke Law Journal, as well as in various public audience publications, including the Los Angeles Times and the National Law Journal. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 2007 and his PhD from Yale University in 2009.

• Part I. Negotiating State and Non-State Law: The Legal Pluralist Project: 1. Non-state lawmaking through the lens of global legal pluralism Paul Schiff Berman; 2. What is law beyond the state? An introduction Ralf Michaels; 3. International law and sociolegal scholarship: toward a spatial global legal pluralism Sally E. Merry; Part II. Negotiating State Law and International/Transnational Law: 4. The constitutional itch: transnational private regulatory governance and the woes of legitimacy Peer Zumbansen; 5. International human rights law as a catalyst for the recognition and evolution of non-state law Helen Quane; 6. The administrative state goes global Oren Perez and Daphne Barak-Erez; 7. International precedent and the practice of international law Harlan Cohen; Part III. Negotiating State Law and Religious/Indigenous Law: 8. Religion, family law, and competing norms Joel A. Nichols; 9. The resolution of disputes in state and tribal law in the south of Iraq: toward a cooperative model of pluralism Haider Ala Hamoudi, Wasfi H. Al-Sharaa and Aqeel Al-Dahhan; 10. Is there such a thing as non-state law? Lessons from Kiryas Joel Nomi Maya Stolzenberg; 11. The persistence of sovereignty and the rise of the legal subject Michael A. Helfand.