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Title Globalizing justice : critical perspectives on transnational law and the cross-border migration of legal norms / edited by Donald W. Jackson, Michael C. Tolley and Mary L. Volcansek
Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages)
Series SUNY series in the foundations of the democratic state
SUNY series in the foundations of the democratic state.
Contents GLOBALIZING JUSTICE; Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. Transnational Influences on the U.S. Supreme Court; 1. The U.S. Supreme Court's Use of Comparative Law in the Construction of Constitutional Rights; 2. Foreign Law in American Jurisprudence: An Empirical Study; 3. Foreign Law in Domestic Courts: Different Uses, Different Implications; PART II. The Rise of Transnational Criminal Jurisdiction; 4. Legitimacy and the Exercise of Universal Criminal Jurisdiction; 5. International and Transnational Law, Sovereignty, and Hegemonic Power
6. The Promotion of International Criminal Law: Evaluating the International Criminal Court and the Apprehension of IndicteesPART III. Transnational Influences on Rights, Citizenship, and Democratization; 7. The Globalization of Human Rights Norms: Understanding the Opportunities and Limits of International Law and Transnational Activism; 8. Rights and the Limits of Transnational Solidarity in Europe; 9. International Imposition and Transmission of Democracy and the Rule of Law: Lessons from Central America; 10. The Role of International Actors in Promoting Rule of Law in Uganda
PART IV. Transnational Law and the Boundaries of Sovereignty11. Blurring Sovereignty: The Human Rights Act of 1998 and British Law; 12. Fundamental Rights, the European Court of Justice, and European Integration; 13. Spreading the Word: Australia's National Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission as Transnational Legal Entrepreneur; 14. Judicial Globalization: How the International Law of Human Rights Changed the Argentine Supreme Court; Conclusion; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Conflict of laws.
Globalization.
Justice.
International and municipal law.
globalism.
LAW -- International.
Conflict of laws
Globalization
International and municipal law
Justice
Form Electronic book
Author Volcansek, Mary L., 1948-
Tolley, Michael Carlton
Jackson, Donald Wilson, 1938-
ISBN 9781438430713
143843071X