Non-state law is playing an increasing role in both public and private ordering. Numerous organizations have emerged alongside the nation-state, each purporting to provide their members with rules and norms to govern their conduct and organize their affairs. The nation-state increasingly finds itself sandwiched, between two broad and contrasting categories of non-state law. The first - law above the state - captures legal systems that function across the territorial borders of nation-states. The second category - law below the state - includes forms of local customary, religious, and indigenous law. As these forms of non-state law persist and proliferate alongside the nation-state, the relationship between state and non-state law becomes more complex, multifaceted, and tense. This volume addresses this relationship considering whether and to what extent state and non-state law can coexist and how each form of law seeks to influence as well as transform the other.
| ISBN: | 9781107083769 |
| Publication date: | 2nd July 2015 |
| Author: | Michael A Helfand |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 362 pages |
| Series: | ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory |
| Genres: |
Public international law Comparative law |