The Plurality Trilemma: A Geometry of Global Legal Thought

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought. It argues that economic globalization and digitalization have induced significant insecurity about the future of human social organization. While traditional international law as a system based on the consent of national states is in the process of rapid adaptation to its new social preconditions, a variety of transnational regulatory levels compete for legal authority. In this process of change, there is more need than ever to guide the theoretical understanding because academic concepts have a crucial influence on the emerging practice of global law. This book highlights which choices are available and argues that global law requires taking a stand in mutually irreconcilable choices. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Introduction: Theory, Practice, and Meta-Theory (David Roth-Isigkeit)....Pages 1-30 Global Legal Thought and Plurality (David Roth-Isigkeit)....Pages 31-78 Taming Plurality Through Formal Legal Rationality: Habermasian Approaches to Global Law (David Roth-Isigkeit)....Pages 79-127 Unleashing Conflict: Post-modern Luhmannian Approaches to Global Law (David Roth-Isigkeit)....Pages 129-170 Process and Harmonizing Principles: Dworkinian Approaches to Global Law (David Roth-Isigkeit)....Pages 171-218 The Plurality Trilemma: The Contingent Geometry of Global Legal Thought (David Roth-Isigkeit)....Pages 219-255 Conclusion: Icarus (David Roth-Isigkeit)....Pages 257-279 Back Matter ....Pages 281-287