The grand challenges that humanity faces—poverty, inequality, hunger, conflict, climate
change, deforestation, and pandemics, among others—hinder the progress of sustainable …

Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars alike,
covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. It critically …

Under pressure from globalisation, the classical distinction between domestic and
international law has become increasingly blurred, spurring demand for new paradigms to …

Legal pluralism has seen a marked rise in interest since the turn of the century. While long
rejected in legal studies, legal pluralism is now widely accepted, not least in light of the …

Academics, practitioners and international and national courts are increasingly seeking to
identify and interpret international law by engaging in comparative analyses of various …

Is it important to conceptualize transnational law and “map” it as a new legal field? This
article suggests that to do so might help both juristic practice and sociolegal scholarship in …

Cities claim an ever-larger role in migration governance, often by means of progressive
policies that “decouple” the local from the national. The literature on this “local turn” has …

Private law has long been the focus of efforts to explain wider developments of law in an era
of globalisation. As consumer transactions and corporate activities continue to develop with …

The European Union is the world's most advanced international organization, presiding over
a level of legal and economic integration unmatched in global politics. To explain this …

Nicht zuletzt durch eine Reihe von öffentlichen Skandalen wurde in den letzten Jahren die»
Neue Verfassungsfrage «aufgeworfen. Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch multinationale …