Lindahl, Hans --- "Globalisation and the concept of legal order" [2020] ELECD 266; in Jorge, L. Fabra-Zamora (ed), "Jurisprudence in a Globalized World" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) 128

Book Title: Jurisprudence in a Globalized World

Editor(s): Jorge, L. Fabra-Zamora

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Globalisation and the concept of legal order

Author(s): Lindahl, Hans

Number of pages: 27

Abstract/Description:

There is widespread agreement that globalisation processes raise significant challenges to the concepts of law which take their point of departure in the state as the paradigm manifestation of law. There is little or no agreement about what a concept of law could look like that is general, by dint of accommodating a wide range of putative legal orders, including emergent global legal orders, and that is flexible, by virtue of its capacity to identify significant structural differences between different kinds of legal orders. The aim of this chapter is to sketch out the broad contours of a concept of legal order that, hopefully, could meet these two desiderata.