| Mobile People, Mobile Law: Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World Contributor(s): Benda-Beckmann, Franz Von (Author), Benda-Beckmann, Keebet Von (Author) |
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ISBN: 0754623866 ISBN-13: 9780754623861 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | International |
| Dewey: 340.115 |
| LCCN: 2004056939 |
| Physical Information: 344 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in multiple legal settings. It provides new insights into social and political processes through which transnational law is locally appropriated by different actors and presents empirical studies of confrontation, adaptation, vernacularization and hybridization of law due to its transplantation across the borders of national states. The contributors offer insights into modern dynamics of legal change, challenging assumptions about increasing homogeneity in law, with a keen eye for the historical situations in which current legal changes stand. |