Internationalization of Law Globalization, International Law and Complexity /

• Main Author: Varella, Marcelo Dias (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; International relations.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations.; International Relations.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

The book provides an overview of how international law is today constructed through diverse macro and microprocesses that expand its traditional subjects and sources, with the attribution of sovereign capacity and power to the international plane (moving the international toward the national). Simul...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Factors and Actors Behind Greater Complexity in Contemporary International Law
• 3. The Greater Complexity of International Law with the Intensification of Relations Among States and International Organizations
• 4. The Internationalization of Law from the Perspective of Infra- and Non-State Actors
• 5. New Features of the Internationalized Legal System: Expansion, Consolidation, Plurality, and Effectiveness
• 6. Challenges with Complexity: New Sources, Private Regimes and the Proliferation of Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
• 7. The problems of New and Old Concepts of International Law
• 8. Conclusions.