Description

This book was the product of a research project funded by the Academic Research Fund Tier 1 grant from the Ministry of Education, Singapore, in 2015-17, culminating in a workshop in Singapore.

The pluralist turn in jurisprudence has led to a search for new ways of thinking about law. The relationships between state law and other legal orders such as international, customary, transnational or indigenous law are particularly significant in this development. Collecting together new work by leading scholars in the field, this volume considers the basic questions about what would be an appropriate theoretical response to this shift: How precisely is it to be undertaken? Is it called for by developments in legal practice or are these adequately addressed by current legal theory? What normative challenges are raised, and what fresh promises might the pluralist turn hold? What distinctive insights can it offer for theorizing about law? This book presents a rich variety of resources drawn from a number of theoretical approaches and demonstrates how they might be brought together to generate an increasingly important pluralist jurisprudence.

About The Co-Editors

Nicole Roughan is the author of Authorities: Conflicts, Cooperation and Transnational Legal Theory (2013) and is working on a new monograph, Officials. She is a recipient of a 2016 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand, to undertake a major research project on Jurisprudence without Borders.

Andrew Halpin has published widely in areas of legal theory, including the impact of novel legal phenomena in a global context on general theories of law. His previous publications include a co-edited collection of essays, Theorising the Global Legal Order (2009).

About The Commentator

Alec Stone Sweet works in the fields of comparative and international politics, and comparative and international law. Prior to moving to NUS, he held chaired professorships at the Yale Law School and Nuffield College, Oxford. Stone Sweet has also held visiting professorships at the Columbia Law School, as well as in universities in Aix-en-Provence, Bologna, Florence, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Sydney, and Vienna. Books include: A Europe of Rights: The Impact of the ECHR on National Legal Systems (2008);The Judicial Construction of Europe (2004); On Law, Politics, and Judicialization (2003); The Politics of Delegation (2002); The Institutionalization of Europe (2001); Governing with Judges (2000);European Integration and Supranational Governance (1998); and The Birth of Judicial Politics in France (1992).