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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law by Gralf-Peter Calliess Peer Zumbansen
Private law has long been the focus of efforts to explain wider developments of law in an era of globalisation. As consumer transactions and corporate activities continue to develop with scant regard to legal and national boundaries private law theorists have begun to sketch and conceptualise the possible architecture of a transnational legal theory. Drawing a detailed map of the mixed regulatory landscape of hard and soft laws official unofficial direct and indirect modes of regulation rules recommendations and principles as well as exploring the concept of governance through disclosure and transparency this book develops a theoretical framework of transnational legal regulationan original rich and highly complex book which undoubtedly will and in fact already is stimulating debates and discussions over the nature and making of transnational law. a must read for whomever wrestles in (or whomever seeks to enter) the rough arena of transnational law!Marco RizziEuropean Journal of Legal StudiesThis path-breaking book offers an original take on the relationship between law and alternative forms of social ordering rooted in market and community activity. Engaging critically with the fast-growing literature on global legal pluralism from the vantage point of a range of disciplines Calliess and Zumbansen take the reader beyond mere synthesis to offer nothing less than a rigorous and innovative theory of transnational law. Colin Scott Professor of EU Regulation and Governance University College DublinRough Consensus and Running Code offers an important new perspective on the role of law in global governance. By taking legal pluralism seriously it develops a nuanced and complex theory of transnational legal regulation. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how transnational law works in theory and practice.Sally Engle Merry New York University