A sociology of transnational constitutions : social foundations of the post-national legal structure /

This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and international courts and by the domestic transformation of international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of institutional formation at key historical junctures i...

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Main Author: Thornhill, Chris, 1966- (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and international courts and by the domestic transformation of international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of national societies, it examines the social processes that have locked national states into an increasingly transnational constitutional order, and it explains how the growth of global constitutional norms has provided a stabilizing framework for the functions of state institutions. The book adopts a distinctive historical-sociological approach to these questions, examining the deep continuities between national constitutional law and contemporary models of global law. The volume makes an important contribution to the sociology of constitutional law, to the sociology of post-national legal processes, and to the sociology of human rights law.
Item Description:Open Access title.
Physical Description:1 online resource (538 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781139833905
1139833901
9781108455992
1108455999
9781316715703
1316715701
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139833905