255 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
255 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Michael Likosky examines the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high tech transnational legal orders. His concern is specifically with the colonial characteristics of the legal order which underpins the global high tech economy. He distinguishes the democratic and human rights rhetoric of this economy from a reality wherein the legal order is often used to reproduce... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Introduction: cultural imperialism and transnational commerce. Dual Legal Orders: Variation and oligarchic states; Compound corporations; Dual legal orders. High Tech Promises: Proto-Malaysia; Infrastructure for commerce; Culture for commerce; Human rights and commerce; Conclusion: where we are and how we might move forward; Bibliography; Subject index; Index of law cases.
Biography
Michael B. Likosky
