Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline

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This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of ’stateless’ law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. From common, civil and international law perspectives, the collection focuses on the definition and role of law as an academic discipline, and hybridity in the practice and production of law. With contributions by a diverse and international group of scholars, the collection includes fourteen chapters written in English and three in French. Confronting the ’transnational challenge’ posed to the traditional theoretical and institutional structures that underlie the teaching and study of law in the university, the seventeen authors of Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline bring new insight to the ongoing and crucial conversation about the future shape of legal scholarship, education and practice that is emblematic of the early twenty-first century. This collection is essential reading for academics, institutions and others involved in determining the future roles, responsibilities and education of jurists, as well as for academics interested in Law, Sociology, Political Science and Education. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Abbreviations of Periodical Titles Cited in this Collection......Page 8 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 16 Foreword......Page 20 Prologue......Page 22 1 Stateless Law: Before, Inside and Outside the Law of the State......Page 24 Part I Introduction: Situating Stateless Law......Page 28 2 Stating Boundaries: The Law, Disciplined......Page 30 3 Teaching Law: ‘Historian and Prophet All in One’......Page 44 Part II The ‘Discipline’ of Stateless Law......Page 52 4 Back to the Future......Page 54 5 Law as an Academic Discipline......Page 64 6 Doctrinal Knowledge, Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and the Problem of Interdisciplinary Engagement......Page 82 7 The Structure of Stateless Law......Page 92 Part III The Forms and Aspirations of Stateless Law......Page 102 8 Brève théorie culturelle du droit......Page 104 9 Un-stating Law......Page 126 10 The Study of Legal Plurality outside ‘Legal Pluralism’: The Future of the Discipline?......Page 136 11 Stateless Law: From Legitimacy to Validity......Page 154 12 Non ratione imperii, sed imperio rationis......Page 164 Part IV The Practice, Teaching and Learning of Stateless Law......Page 178 13 Thinking, Doing, Being: Why ‘Practising’ Law Matters to the Prevention of Torture......Page 180 14 Qu’est-ce qu’une « faculté » de droit? De la philosophie au droit......Page 196 15 Everything Old Is New Again: Stateless Law, the State of the Law Schools and Comparative Legal/Normative History......Page 208 16 The Impact of ‘Stateless Law’ on Legal Pedagogy......Page 222 Epilogue......Page 234 17 What Lies Before, Behind and Beneath a Case? Five Minutes on Transnational Lawyering and the Consequences for Legal Education......Page 236 Index......Page 252