We are honored to present Volume XL, Issue 1, of the
Transnational Law Review.
Turning from international law to
transnational law provides a more sensitive discursive framework for the institutional and normative implications of a turn to subsidiarity and bottom-up governance.
65) As argued above, the structural shift from international negotiations to global governance, from controlled international law to compelled
transnational law, has not only failed to redress the imbalances but actually appears to be aggravating them.
Unpacking this narrative provides an understanding of the nature of the problem that lawyers and courts are supposed to address through
transnational law.
Applied to sports law, Jessup's
Transnational Law would make it possible to group all standards into a single set "which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers" in the area of sport.
In 1956, Philip Jessup in his classic book
Transnational Law called upon lawyers to use not only classic international law but also
transnational law in courts.
Klaus Peter Berger of the Center for
Transnational Law, University of Cologne and Professor Martin Hunter, Barrister, Professor of International Dispute Resolution, Nottingham Law School and Chairman of DIAC Board of Trustees, are conducting the course that target lawyers, government officials, business executives, advanced young practitioners and others wishing to familiarize themselves with the different dispute resolution techniques.
Maloney, John (2006), "A Collective Rights Society for the Digital Age", Journal of
Transnational Law and Policy 16(1): 123-141.
This developing
transnational law on reproductive rights provides both a different framework--be it the focus on dignity, equality, or cruel and degrading treatment--and a reminder by example of the serious consequences that follow when women do not have access to reproductive healthcare.
Indeed, there are other autonomous sources of law in the international commercial and financial sphere or
transnational law.
Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Wroth, and others, Lockey contends, in probing matters of universal justice and
transnational law through the genre of romance, drew the English into a complex conversation on the ethics of empire.
Rabkin is suspicious of the motives that lurk behind arguments for
transnational law and critical of the efficacy of existing international institutions.
