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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Globalisation Law and the State by Jean-Bernard Auby
iGlobalisation Law and the State/i begins – as is customary in globalisation literature – with an acknowledgement of the definitional difficulties associated with globalisation. Rather than labour the point the book identifies some economic political and cultural dimensions to the phenomenon and uses these to analyse existing and emerging challenges to State-centric and territorial models of law and governance. It surveys three areas that are typically associated with globalisation – financial markets the internet and public contracts – as well as trade more generally the environment human rights and national governance. On this basis it considers how global legal norms are formed how they enmesh with the norms of other legal orders and how they create pressure for legal harmonisation. This in turn leads to an analysis of the corresponding challenges that globalisation presents to traditional notions of sovereignty and the models of public law that have grown from them. The book’s themes are particularly pressing in the current political and legal climate and it will be of great interest to public lawyers particularly those with an interest in globalisation.