1st Edition

Power and Pluralism in International Law Private International Law and Globalization

By Edward S. Cohen Copyright 2022
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Demonstrating the crucial role that private international law and legality has played and continues to play in shaping globalization, this book argues that the rules, institutions, and actors that make up the practice of private international law have been critical in translating political and economic power into legal regimes that have facilitated the processes of globalization. These... Read more

Part One – Theoretical Foundations: Private International Law and Globalization

- Chapter 1 – Introduction: Private Law in a World of Globalization

- Chapter 2 – The Theory and Practice of Transnational Legal Pluralism

- Chapter 3 – Talking Past One Another: Private International Law and International

Political Economy.

Part Two – Private Law Technologies and the Construction of Globalization.

- Chapter 4 – The Technologies of Private International Law I: Contract and Party

Autonomy.

- Chapter 5 – The Technologies of Private International Law II: The Pluralism-

Harmonization Dynamic.

- Chapter 6 – The Technologies of Private International Law III: International

Commercial Arbitration and the Private Settlement of Disputes.

- Chapter 7 - International Investment Law and Investor-State Arbitration:

Incorporating Private Law Technologies into Public Law.

Part Three – Conclusion.

- Chapter 8 - PIL and Power in the Contemporary Political Economy: Contention Amidst Cooperation.

Preface

Bibliography

 

Biography

Edward S. Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, USA.  He currently resides in the Boston, MA area where he is Visiting Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Suffolk University