Global Lawmakers

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-18758-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 843 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Global lawmaking by international organizations holds the potential for enormous influence over world trade and national economies. Representatives from states, industries, and professions produce laws for worldwide adoption in an effort to alter state lawmaking and commercial behaviors, whether of giant multi-national corporations or micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Who makes that law and who benefits affects all states and all market players. Global Lawmakers offers the first extensive empirical study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead. Using extensive and unique data, the book investigates three episodes of lawmaking between the late 1990s and 2012. Through its original socio-legal orientation, it reveals dynamics of competition, cooperation and competitive cooperation within and between international organizations, including the UN, World Bank, IMF and UNIDROIT, as these IOs craft international laws. Global Lawmakers proposes an original theory of international organizations that seek to construct transnational legal orders within social ecologies of lawmaking. The book concludes with an appraisal of creative global governance by the UN in international commerce over the past fifty years and examines prospective challenges for the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Block-Lieb, Susan

Halliday, Terence C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Lawmaking ecologies for global markets; 2. Emergence of a lawmaking ecology; 3. Issue ecologies in formation; 4. Delegations and delegates; 5. The work of lawmaking; 6. Creative design in legal technologies; 7. Whose global norms?; 8. The lawmaking of lawmaking; 9. Rivalries; 10. Inventive global governance.

Über Autor(innen)

Block-Lieb, Susan
Susan Block-Lieb is the Cooper Family Professor in Urban Legal Issues at Fordham University, New York, School of Law.

Halliday, Terence C.
Terence C. Halliday is Co-Director at the Center on Law and Globalization, and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. He is Honorary Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, the Australian National University, Canberra, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, Illinois.