Advance Praise
And Reviews
The Globalization of Legal Education
This book, with contributors from nine countries, seeks to critically understand the processes of legal education reform and resistance and to point to what these processes mean for law and lawyers inside and outside of the United States. The book seeks to understand the forces driving these processes and to evaluate their implications. Its substantive chapters provide critical insights into how these transnational processes operate in different jurisdictions around the world in light of globalization and local competition.
Constitution Making and Transnational Legal Order
"Readers will emerge with a new understanding of how constitutions are made and remade. The authors disrupt the central claim in constitutional theory that constitutions are autochthonous creations reflecting purely national values and expressing local views. This book should become a focal point of reference in studies of constitution-making and constitutional change."
Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor of Law, University of Texas, Austin
Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
"This important book mounts a fundamental challenge to the nation-state paradigm of criminal justice scholarship."
Nicola Lacey, School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy, London School of Economics
Transnational Legal Orders
"This is a theoretical landmark of socio-legal scholarship."
John Braithwaite, Distinguished Professor and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network), Australian National University
"This thoughtful volume helps explode the traditional matrix that has too long artificially divided law and lawmaking into rigid domestic and international, public and private cells."
Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School, and former Legal Adviser, US Department of State
Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change
"Through its rigorous conceptual framework and comprehensive case studies, this book should inspire scholars to conduct even further microanalyses of state change. It highlights the emerging need to study how transnational legal norms hybridize and cross-pollinate and how transnational legal orders reshape legal cultures and legal consciousness on the local level. In short, this major contribution is essential reading for both policymakers and scholars seeking to understand the operation and effectiveness of transnational law."
Galit A. Sarfaty, American Journal of International Law
“This path-breaking collection, excellently edited by Gregory Shaffer, includes theoretically sophisticated chapters by top scholars examining a variety of processes of transnational legal ordering affecting developing countries. Drawing on rich empirical materials, the authors show us how the different results of such interventions arise from a complex but understandable process involving local, national and international institutions.”
David Nelken Distinguished Research Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School
Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience
"The original material provided by the case studies in this volume of essays will … enrich the work of commentators and scholars, who should draw upon them when writing about developing countries’ use of the WTO dispute settlement. They … have much to learn."
Mary E. Footer, European Journal of International Law
When Cooperation Fails
"When Corporation Fails is a significant, original contribution ... It is an outstanding and highly informative study of the interaction of four global regulatory regimes and the domestic legal and political responses to them."
Sabino Cassese, Judge, Italian Constitutional Court; Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
Defending Interests
“[A] fascinating exploration of how governments, in the exercise of their public functions, work with and are influenced by private sector actors.... Shaffer's DEFENDING INTERESTS is a unique and superb work of scholarship. It contains a wealth of information based on original research about how the United States and the EC prosecute cases in the WTO dispute settlement system.”
William J. Davey, University of Illinois College of Law, The American Journal of International Law
"This public-private hybrid is the wave of the future not only for international economic law, but also for international criminal law and soon for international environmental law. Defending Interests is on the cutting edge of international law research —exploring and analyzing the costs, benefits, contradictions, and tensions in this new form of governance."
Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
"This book is an outstanding piece of research.... The picture of how U.S. business interests operate within Washington should be required reading for any scholar who wants to write about U.S. behavior with regard to international trade law."
Robert E. Hudec, Research Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy
"This book is particularly significant because of its conceptual clarity and broad scope. At a time when many essay collections are loosely shaped, unoriginal, or jargon-ridden, this one is a model of research and analysis."
Stanley Hoffman Foreign Affairs
"This book should be required reading not only for specialists in trade and regulatory interrelationships and those interested in the transatlantic relationship, but also for all interested generally in international relations theory and practice."
Public Policy
"Law, although an instrument for the institutionalization of power, is also a set of rules and practices that parties use to provide order, pursue justice, and solve problems."
Gregory Shaffer, Emerging Powers and the World Trading System
Gregory Shaffer, Emerging Powers and the World Trading System