Globalisation and the Western legal tradition : recurring patterns of law and authority / / David B. Goldman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511507803321
• Autore: Goldman David B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-107-17331-0; 0-511-61955-3; 1-282-00128-0; 9786612001284; 0-511-47962-X; 0-511-47721-X; 0-511-48042-3; 0-511-47577-2; 0-511-47873-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Law in context
• Disciplina: 340.52
• Soggetti: Law - History; Law - Europe - History; Law - Philosophy - History; Law - International unification; Globalization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-348) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Globalisation and the world revolution -- Law and authority in space and time -- The original European community -- Universal law and the papal revolution -- Territorial law and the rise of the state -- The reformation of state authority -- The constricted universalism of the nation-state -- The incomplete authority of the nation-state -- The return of universalist law : human rights and free trade -- The twenty-first century European community -- International commercial law and private governance.
• Sommario/riassunto: What can 'globalisation' teach us about law in the Western tradition? This important new work seeks to explore that question by analysing ; key ideas and events in the Western legal tradition, including the Papal Revolution, the Protestant Reformations and the Enlightenment. Addressing the role of law, morality and politics, it looks at the creation of orders which offer the possibility for global harmony, in particular the United Nations and the European Union. It also considers the unification of international commercial laws in the attempt to understand Western law in a time of accelerating cultural interconnections. The title will appeal to scholars of legal history and globalisation as well as students of jurisprudence and all those trying to understand globalisation and the Western dynamic of law and authority.