Globalisation and the Western Legal Tradition: Recurring Patterns Of Law And Authority

Preface 1. Introduction Part I. Towards a Globalist Jurisprudence: 2. Globalisation and the world revolution 3. Law and authority in space and time Part II. A Holy Roman Empire: 4. The original European community 5. Universal law and the Papal Revolution Part III. State Formation and Reformation: 6. Territorial law and the rise of the state 7. The reformation of state authority Part IV. A Wholly Mammon Empire?: 8. The constricted universalism of the nation-state 9. The incomplete authority of the nation-state 10. The return of universalist law: human rights and free trade Part V. Competing Jurisdictions: Case Studies: 11. The twenty-first century European community 12. International commercial law and private governance 13. Conclusion.