The Plurality Trilemma A Geometry of Global Legal Thought /

• Main Author: Roth-Isigkeit, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law
• Subjects: Political theory.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political philosophy.; Political Theory.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Political Philosophy.
• Physical Description: XXIII, 287 p. 6 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319728568
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72856-8

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought. It argues that economic globalization and digitalization have induced significant insecurity about the future of human social organization. While traditional international law as a system based on the consent of national states is in the process of rapid adaptation to its new social preconditions, a variety of transnational regulatory levels compete for legal authority. In this process of change, there is more need than ever to guide the theoretical understanding because academic concepts have a crucial influence on the emerging practice of global law. This book highlights which choices are available and argues that global law requires taking a stand in mutually irreconcilable choices.