Rough Consensus and Running Code

Calliess, Gralf-Peter; Zumbansen, Peer

ISBN 10: 1841139742 / ISBN 13: 9781841139746

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010

Beschreibung

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 scant regard to legal and national boundaries, private law theorists have begun to sketch and conceptualise the possible architecture of a transnational legal theory. Drawing a detailed map of the mixed regulatory landscape of 'hard' and 'soft' laws, official, unofficial, direct and indirect modes of regulation, rules, recommendations and principles as well as exploring the concept of governance through disclosure and transparency, this book develops a theoretical framework of transnational legal regulation. Rough Consensus and Running Code describes and analyses different law-making regimes currently observable in the transnational arena. Its core aim is to reassess the transnational regulation of consumer contracts and corporate governance in light of a dramatic proliferation of rule-creators and compliance mechanisms that can no longer be clearly associated with either the 'state' or the 'market'.The chosen examples from two of the most dynamic legal fields in the transnational arena today serve as backdrops for a comprehensive legal theoretical inquiry into the changing institutional and normative landscape of legal norm-creation.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781841139746

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Rough Consensus and Running Code
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1841139742
• ISBN-13: 9781841139746
• Einband: Hardback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

As consumer transactions and corporate activities have developed with scant regard to legal and national boundaries, private law theorists have been called upon to investigate what the international law framework might look like. Moving between 'hard' and 'soft' laws - as well as official, unofficial, direct, and indirect regulation - this book constitutes the first comprehensive attempt to develop the framework for a private law regulatory regime which mediates between state-society and public-private relations on the one hand, and a fast-evolving transnational normative field on the other. Rough Consensus and Running Code describes and assesses the different law-making regimes currently observable in the transnational arena. Its reassesses, in terms of its legitimacy, the transnational regulation of contracts and corporate law as undertaken by regulatory regimes which are neither purely national nor international, neither exclusively public nor private in nature. Instead the institutions and the principal actors are hybrids. The challenge for scholars of public and private international law is to incorporate the new norms into existing bodies of law and this, ultimately, is the challenge met by this new work.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gralf-Peter Calliess (LLB, PhD Göttingen, Habilitation Frankfurt) holds the Chair in Private Law, Comparative and International Economic Law, University of Bremen Faculty of Law. Professor Calliess is Director of the A4 Project ('New Forms of Legal Certainty in Globalized Exchange Processes') at the Collaborative Research Centre 'Transformations of the State'.

Peer Zumbansen is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto.