Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521607353 ISBN 13: 9780521607353

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Written by leading scholars, these case studies represent an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. They combine empirical research with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are the role of law and politics in the World Social Forum; the struggle on the anti-sweeping movement for the protection of international labor rights; and the challenge to neoliberal globalization and liberal human rights raised by grassroots movements in India and indigenous peoples around the world.

About this title

Book Description:

This book engages with scholarly and political debates on law and globalization. It deals with the use of the law by social movements around the world that contest market-friendly policies and institutions and corporate-led globalization. Its main purpose is to analyze and document the combination of law and politics in struggles that combine resistance at the local, national and global levels. Its main purpose is to rigorously analyze different case studies to draw lessons about the potential of such struggles to transform global law and politics.

About the Author:

Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal and Distinguished Legal Scholar of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Assistant Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Los Andes, Colombia and Fellow of the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521607353
• ISBN 13: 9780521607353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: De Sousa Santos Boaventura, Rodríguez-Garavito César A.