From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws

Taylor & Francis

This book approaches law as a process embedded in the transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, their norms and values. Through the lens of a variety of important contemporary subjects, the authors engage with the nature of power and how it is accommodated, ignored or resisted by various actors when transnational practices encounter national and local law. > This book approaches law as a process embedded in transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, norms and values. It uses the concept \""living law\"" to describe the multiplicity of norms manifest in transnational moral, social or economic practices that transgress the territorial and legal boundaries of the nation-state. Focusing on transnational legal encounters located in family life, diasporic religious institutions and media event.