The Many Lives of Transnational Law

Peer Zumbansen is the founding Director of the Transnational Law Institute at King's College London and teaches at King's and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. He is the series editor of Cambridge Studies in Transnational Law and co-editor-in-chief of Transnational Legal Theory.

• Introduction: transnational law, with and beyond Jessup Peer Zumbansen; Part I. Transnational Law: The Public and the Private: 1. Jessup at the United Nations: international legacy, transnational possibilities Stephen Minas; 2. The concept of a global legal system Christopher A. Whytock; 3. How comity makes transnationalism work Thomas Schultz and Niccolò Ridi; Part II. Transnational Law as Regulatory Governance: 4. Aiding and abetting in theorising the increasing softification of the international normative order – a darker legacy of Jessup's transnational law? Karsten Nowrot; 5. From international law to transnational law, from transnational law to transnational legal orders Gregory Shaffer and Carlos Coye; 6. Transnational law in the Pacific Century: mapping pesticide regulation in China Francis Snyder, Zhouke Hu and Lili Ni; 7. Transnational law in context: the relevance of Jessup's analysis for the study of 'international' arbitration Florian Grisel; 8. Transnational Law and Adjudication – Domestic, International and Foreign Intersections Bryan Horrigan; 9. Transnational Law and Global Dispute Resolution Shahla Ali; 10. Conflicts of law and the challenge of transnational data flows Paul Schiff Berman; 11. What lex sportiva tells you about transnational law Antoine Duval; 12. Family law: a blindspot Ivana Isailovic; Part III. Transnational Law: The Field's Normative Stakes: 13. Locating private transnational authority in the global political economy A. Claire Cutler; 14. Transnational law as drama Jothie Rajah; 15. Transnational law as unseen law Natasha Affolder; 16. The Cri De Jessup sixty years later: transnational law's intangible objects and abstracted frameworks Larry Catá Backer; 17. The private life of transnational law: reading Jessup from the postcolony Prabhakar Singh; 18. After the backlash: a new pride for transnational law? Ralf Michaels; Part IV. Conclusion: Epilogue – difficulties for every solution: defining transnational law at the edge of transdisciplinarity Vik Kanwar.

'This volume brings together leading international scholars - from various mainstream as well as critical and interdisciplinary perspectives - to explore the historical and contemporary normative frameworks, public and private actors, and contested power relations in the ever-expanding field of transnational law. Drawing upon the ground-breaking contributions of Philip Jessup in the wake of WWII, the volume points to the innovations of current scholarship that analyze transborder legal processes as collective and discursive practice. Since many aspects of transnational law are largely unregulated by state governments, the volume rightly asks to what degree does transnational law contribute to today's crises of democratic governance? Given what is at stake, the volume is essential reading for scholars and practitioners grappling with the increasing complexities of transnational legal formations in the twenty-first century.' Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine