Edited by Roger Cotterrell, Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory and Maksymilian Del Mar, Reader in Legal Theory, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'For a subject the editors acknowledge to be as yet unformed, this book provides an impressive collection of substantive contributions, offering sometimes tentative, sometimes bold perspectives that range across its contested terrain. The immense significance of the subject and its potentially far-reaching implications are clearly accessible through the quality of these contributions. The prospects for an informed appreciation of the subject's future development are reinforced by the editors' own careful introductory commentary and measured concluding reflections.'

• Contents:IntroductionRoger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del MarPART I CONCEIVING AUTHORITY: CHALLENGING AND DEFENDING TRADITIONAL APPROACHES1. Authority, Solid and Liquid, in Postnational GovernanceNico Krisch2. Claims to Authority, Legal Systems, and Dynamic Social PhenomenaKeith Culver and Michael Giudice3. The Modern State and the Concept of AuthorityMichel Troper4. Law’s Authority and Overlapping JurisdictionsHaris PsarrasPART II CONSTITUTIONALISM AND PLURALISM5. The Antinomies of Constitutional AuthorityNeil Walker6. The Evolution of Global Legal PluralismPaul Schiff BermanPART III HISTORICISING AUTHORITY7. Informal Authorities in European Private LawNils Jansen8. Imaginaries of Authority: Towards an Archaeology of DisagreementMaksymilian Del MarPART IV METHODS: NORMATIVE, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 9. Transnational Legal Authority: A Socio-Legal PerspectiveRoger Cotterrell10. From Authority to Authorities: Bridging the Social / Normative DivideNicole Roughan11. When Transnational Authority is Contingent: Three African InstancesSally Falk MoorePART V THE PRIVATISATION OF AUTHORITY AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY12. Theorising Transnational Authority: A Private International Law PerspectiveHoratia Muir Watt13. Expertise and Authority in Transnational GovernanceSigrid QuackConcluding Reflections: Transnational Futures of AuthorityRoger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del MarIndex

Edited by Roger Cotterrell, Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory and Maksymilian Del Mar, Reader in Legal Theory, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'For a subject the editors acknowledge to be as yet unformed, this book provides an impressive collection of substantive contributions, offering sometimes tentative, sometimes bold perspectives that range across its contested terrain. The immense significance of the subject and its potentially far-reaching implications are clearly accessible through the quality of these contributions. The prospects for an informed appreciation of the subject's future development are reinforced by the editors' own careful introductory commentary and measured concluding reflections.'

• Contents:IntroductionRoger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del MarPART I CONCEIVING AUTHORITY: CHALLENGING AND DEFENDING TRADITIONAL APPROACHES1. Authority, Solid and Liquid, in Postnational GovernanceNico Krisch2. Claims to Authority, Legal Systems, and Dynamic Social PhenomenaKeith Culver and Michael Giudice3. The Modern State and the Concept of AuthorityMichel Troper4. Law’s Authority and Overlapping JurisdictionsHaris PsarrasPART II CONSTITUTIONALISM AND PLURALISM5. The Antinomies of Constitutional AuthorityNeil Walker6. The Evolution of Global Legal PluralismPaul Schiff BermanPART III HISTORICISING AUTHORITY7. Informal Authorities in European Private LawNils Jansen8. Imaginaries of Authority: Towards an Archaeology of DisagreementMaksymilian Del MarPART IV METHODS: NORMATIVE, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 9. Transnational Legal Authority: A Socio-Legal PerspectiveRoger Cotterrell10. From Authority to Authorities: Bridging the Social / Normative DivideNicole Roughan11. When Transnational Authority is Contingent: Three African InstancesSally Falk MoorePART V THE PRIVATISATION OF AUTHORITY AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY12. Theorising Transnational Authority: A Private International Law PerspectiveHoratia Muir Watt13. Expertise and Authority in Transnational GovernanceSigrid QuackConcluding Reflections: Transnational Futures of AuthorityRoger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del MarIndex

Edited by Roger Cotterrell, Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory and Maksymilian Del Mar, Reader in Legal Theory, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'For a subject the editors acknowledge to be as yet unformed, this book provides an impressive collection of substantive contributions, offering sometimes tentative, sometimes bold perspectives that range across its contested terrain. The immense significance of the subject and its potentially far-reaching implications are clearly accessible through the quality of these contributions. The prospects for an informed appreciation of the subject's future development are reinforced by the editors' own careful introductory commentary and measured concluding reflections.'

• Contents:IntroductionRoger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del MarPART I CONCEIVING AUTHORITY: CHALLENGING AND DEFENDING TRADITIONAL APPROACHES1. Authority, Solid and Liquid, in Postnational GovernanceNico Krisch2. Claims to Authority, Legal Systems, and Dynamic Social PhenomenaKeith Culver and Michael Giudice3. The Modern State and the Concept of AuthorityMichel Troper4. Law’s Authority and Overlapping JurisdictionsHaris PsarrasPART II CONSTITUTIONALISM AND PLURALISM5. The Antinomies of Constitutional AuthorityNeil Walker6. The Evolution of Global Legal PluralismPaul Schiff BermanPART III HISTORICISING AUTHORITY7. Informal Authorities in European Private LawNils Jansen8. Imaginaries of Authority: Towards an Archaeology of DisagreementMaksymilian Del MarPART IV METHODS: NORMATIVE, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 9. Transnational Legal Authority: A Socio-Legal PerspectiveRoger Cotterrell10. From Authority to Authorities: Bridging the Social / Normative DivideNicole Roughan11. When Transnational Authority is Contingent: Three African InstancesSally Falk MoorePART V THE PRIVATISATION OF AUTHORITY AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY12. Theorising Transnational Authority: A Private International Law PerspectiveHoratia Muir Watt13. Expertise and Authority in Transnational GovernanceSigrid QuackConcluding Reflections: Transnational Futures of AuthorityRoger Cotterrell and Maksymilian Del MarIndex