Law, Contestation, and Power in the Global Political Economy: An Introduction.

<p>The papers included in this collection are part of concerted project to develop a political economy of law in the contemporary global system. Over the past two decades, scholars have noted the expanding role of law, legal institutions, and legal agents that have been part of the process of...

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Main Authors: Edward S. Cohen, A. Claire Cutler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2013-10-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:ttp://ssrn.com/abstract=2326624
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Summary:<p>The papers included in this collection are part of concerted project to develop a political economy of law in the contemporary global system. Over the past two decades, scholars have noted the expanding role of law, legal institutions, and legal agents that have been part of the process of &ldquo;globalization,&rdquo; and have employed a number of frameworks to make sense of this process of legalization. A central theme of our project is that none of these frameworks has provided an adequate political economic analysis of the creation, diffusion, and use of law, and we present an alternative approach to advance the understanding of the turn to law across the many dimensions and sectors of the global system. The papers advance the analysis behind this approach and explore the various ways in which law matters in a variety of areas, including global finance, corporate governance, copyright, diplomacy, and the provision of security. Their goal is to advance our understanding of how law intersects with the mobilization of power in the construction of the contemporary political economy.</p> <hr /><p>Los trabajos incluidos en esta colecci&oacute;n son parte de un proyecto conjunto para desarrollar una econom&iacute;a pol&iacute;tica de la ley en el sistema mundial contempor&aacute;neo. En las &uacute;ltimas dos d&eacute;cadas, los expertos han se&ntilde;alado el creciente papel de la ley, las instituciones legales, y los agentes judiciales que han sido parte del proceso de "globalizaci&oacute;n", y han empleado una serie de marcos para dar sentido a este proceso de legalizaci&oacute;n. Un tema central de nuestro proyecto es que ninguno de estos marcos ha proporcionado un adecuado an&aacute;lisis econ&oacute;mico pol&iacute;tico de la creaci&oacute;n, difusi&oacute;n y uso de la ley, y se presenta un enfoque alternativo para avanzar en la comprensi&oacute;n de la vuelta a la ley a trav&eacute;s de las muchas dimensiones y sectores del sistema global. Los trabajos avanzan el an&aacute;lisis de este enfoque y exploran las diversas formas en que la ley importa en una variedad de &aacute;reas, incluyendo las finanzas globales, el gobierno corporativo, derechos de autor, la diplomacia y la prestaci&oacute;n de la seguridad. Su objetivo es avanzar en nuestra comprensi&oacute;n de c&oacute;mo la ley se cruza con la movilizaci&oacute;n de la energ&iacute;a en la construcci&oacute;n de la econom&iacute;a pol&iacute;tica contempor&aacute;nea.
ISSN:2079-5971