The Challenge of Inter-Legality

The sovereignty of states to enact and enforce laws within their jurisdictions has been recognized since 1648. However, global legal norms that transcend national sovereignty hold states accountable for not including their domestic legal regimes. This volume is the first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven, and what to do about it. It provides essays on the history, primary areas of inter-legality, the concept of jurisdiction, and normative developments prompted by inter-legality, and aims to answer three questions: does inter-legality occur with some regularity? How does it affect traditional legal concepts such as jurisdiction or legal order or responsibility? And what are the normative implications?

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 445 pages
Publication date: 19 May 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The sovereignty of states to enact and enforce laws within their jurisdictions has been recognized since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. However, there are now accepted global legal norms that transcend national sovereignty and hold states accountable for not including their domestic legal regimes. This volume is the first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven and what to do about it. Coining the term "inter-legality," this volume provides essays on the history, primary areas of inter-legality, the concept of jurisdiction, and normative developments prompted by inter-legality. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from various academic backgrounds, this book aims to answer three questions: does inter-legality occur with some regularity? How does it affect traditional legal concepts such as jurisdiction, legal order, or responsibility? And what are the normative implications?

The sovereignty of states to enact and enforce laws within their jurisdictions has been recognized since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

However, there are now accepted global legal norms that transcend national sovereignty and hold states accountable for not including their domestic legal regimes. This volume is the first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven and what to do about it. Coining the term "inter-legality," this volume provides essays on the history, primary areas of inter-legality, the concept of jurisdiction, and normative developments prompted by inter-legality. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from various academic backgrounds, this book aims to answer three questions: does inter-legality occur with some regularity? How does it affect traditional legal concepts such as jurisdiction, legal order, or responsibility? And what are the normative implications?

The sovereignty of states to enact and enforce laws within their jurisdictions has been recognized since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

However, there are now accepted global legal norms that transcend national sovereignty and hold states accountable for not including their domestic legal regimes. This volume is the first book-length treatment to describe and explain how legal orders can be interwoven and what to do about it. Coining the term "inter-legality," this volume provides essays on the history, primary areas of inter-legality, the concept of jurisdiction, and normative developments prompted by inter-legality. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from various academic backgrounds, this book aims to answer three questions: does inter-legality occur with some regularity? How does it affect traditional legal concepts such as jurisdiction, legal order, or responsibility? And what are the normative implications?

Weight: 652g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781108442381