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Transnational Communities and the Concept of Law |
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| Authors: | ROGER COTTERRELL |
| Affiliation: | 1. University of London Queen Mary and Westfield College Department of Law Mile End Road London E1 4NS, UK E‐mail: r.b.m.cotterrell@qmul.ac.uk;2. This article is based on the text of a paper given at a colloquium on “Globalisation and the International Community” at the University of London Institute in Paris on April 14, 2007. I am grateful especially to André‐Jean Arnaud for valuable comments. |
| Abstract: | Abstract. The proliferation of forms of transnational regulation, often unclear in their relation to the law of nation states but also, in some cases, claiming authority as “law,” suggests that the concept of law should be reconsidered in the light of processes associated with globalisation. This article identifies matters to be taken into account in any such reconsideration: in particular, ideas of legal pluralism, of degrees of legalisation, and of relative legal authority. Regulatory authority should be seen as ultimately based in the diverse moral conditions of the networks of community which regulation serves. |
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