A Sociology Of Transnational Constitutions: Social Foundations Of The Post-national Legal Structure (cambridge Studies In Law And Society)
by Chris Thornhill /
2016 / English / PDF
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This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional
laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and
international courts and by the domestic transformation of
international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of
institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of
national societies, it examines the social processes that have
locked national states into an increasingly transnational
constitutional order, and it explains how the growth of global
constitutional norms has provided a stabilizing framework for the
functions of state institutions. The book adopts a distinctive
historical-sociological approach to these questions, examining the
deep continuities between national constitutional law and
contemporary models of global law. The volume makes an important
contribution to the sociology of constitutional law, to the
sociology of post-national legal processes, and to the sociology of
human rights law. This title is also available as Open Access.
This volume focuses on the rise of transnational constitutional
laws, primarily created by the interaction between national and
international courts and by the domestic transformation of
international law. Through detailed analysis of patterns of
institutional formation at key historical junctures in a number of
national societies, it examines the social processes that have
locked national states into an increasingly transnational
constitutional order, and it explains how the growth of global
constitutional norms has provided a stabilizing framework for the
functions of state institutions. The book adopts a distinctive
historical-sociological approach to these questions, examining the
deep continuities between national constitutional law and
contemporary models of global law. The volume makes an important
contribution to the sociology of constitutional law, to the
sociology of post-national legal processes, and to the sociology of
human rights law. This title is also available as Open Access.
