Peer Zumbansen, Transnational Legal Pluralism (January 26, 2010). CLPE Research Paper No. 01/2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1542907
In order to grasp the increasingly transterritorial nature of regulatory governance it is necessary to revisit the arguments in support of legal pluralism and, in particular, the legal pluralist critique of the association of law with the state. On that basis, it becomes possible to read the currently dominant narrative of the ‘end of law’ in an era of globalization in a different light. Rather than describing the advent of globalization as an end-point of legal development, a transnational perspective seeks to deconstruct the various law-state associations by understanding the evolution of law in relation and response to the development of ‘world society’.
