Law at the End of the Day

Larry Catá Backer's comments on current issues in transnational law and policy. These essays focus on the constitution of regulatory communities (political, economic, and religious) as they manage their constituencies and the conflicts between them. The context is globalization. This is an academic field-free zone: expect to travel "without documents" through the sometimes strongly guarded boundaries of international relations, constitutional, international, comparative, and corporate law.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Peer Zumbansen on Why Compare?

My colleague Peer Zumbansen, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada, has produced a marvelous essay on comparative law in the new world of transnational legal pluralism: Peer Zumbansen, "Transnational comparisons: theory and practice of comparative law as a critique of global governance, " Transnational Comparisons 9: 186-211(2012).

(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2012)

I had the opportunity to engage with this excellent work in the course of a Global Governance Debate “On the Tension Between Public and Private Governance in the Emerging Transnational Legal Order” sponsored by the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. April 16, 2012.

I titled my presentation: "‘The Artist’: Legality and Legitimacy in the Savage Lands of Governance." It serves as an analysis of this work. I have linked to the PowerPoints of the presentation of made of this work HERE.

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