Justice under global capitalism?

Law and Critique

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-334

  Teubner, Gunther ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civic resistance; Fragmentation; Human rights; Justice; Polycentric globalisation; Societal constitutionalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249120405     PISSN: 09578536     EISSN: 15728617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10978-008-9033-y     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. Various social theories on legal globalisation make this point: theories of global culture, see, for example, J.W. Meyer, J. Boli, G.M. Thomas and F.O. Ramirez, "World Society and the Nation-State", American Journal of Sociology 103 (1997), 144-181;
2. on discourse analysis, see A. Schütz, "The Twilight of the Global Polis: On Losing Paradigms, Environing Systems, and Observing World Society", in G. Teubner, ed., Global Law Without A State (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1997), 257ff;
3. on global legal pluralism, see B de Sousa Santos, Toward A New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalisation & Emancipation (London: Butterworths, LexisNexis, 2003), passim;
4. on global civil society, see D. Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Cambridge: Polity, 1995), passim;
5. on world society, see the contributions in M. Albert and L. Hilkermeier, eds, Observing International Relations. Niklas Luhmann and World Politics (London, New York: Routledge, 2004).
6. N. Luhmann, Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1997), at 1088 et seq.
7. N. Luhamnn, Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft (Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1994), at 344.
8. J. Habermas, Legitimation Crisis (Cambridge: Polity, 1975).
9. For what these changes mean for private law, see G. Teubner, "In the Blind Spot:The Hybridization of Contracting", Theoretical Inquiries in Law 1/4/8 (2007), 51-71;
10. G. Teubner, "Global Private Regimes: Neo-spontaneous Law and Dual Constitution of Autonomous Sectors?", in K.-H.Ladeur, ed., Public Governance in an Age of Globalisation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 71-87;
11. G. Teubner, "Contracting Worlds: Invoking Discourse Rights in Private Governance Regimes", Social and Legal Studies 9 (2000), 399-417.
12. For details see, G. Teubner, "The Anonymous Matrix: Human Rights Violations by 'Private' Transnational Actors", Modern Law Review 69 (2006), 327-346;
13. see also G. Verschraegen, "Human Rights and Modern Society: A Sociological Analysis from the Perspective of Systems Theory", Journal of Law and Society 29 (2002), 258-281;
14. K.-H. Ladeur, "Helmut Ridders Konzeption der Meinungs-und Pressefreiheit in der Demokratie", Kritische Justiz 32 (1999), 281-300;
15. C. Graber and G. Teubner, "Art and Money: Constitutional Rights in the Private Sphere", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 18 (1998), 61-74.
16. This is the core idea of societal constitutionalism developed by D. Sciulli in his Theory of Societal Constitutionalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), at 21 ff.;
17. see also D. Sciulli, Corporate Power in Civil Society: An Application of Societal Constitutionalism (New York: New York University Press, 2001), at 131 ff.
18. For an elaboration, G. Teubner, "Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to State-centred Constitutional Theory?", in C. Joerges, I.-J. Sand and G. Teubner, eds, Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance (Oxford: Hart, 2004), 3-28.
19. For the related concept of constitutional pluralism beyond the nation state, see N. Walker, "The Idea of Constitutional Pluralism", Modern Law Review 65 (2002), 317-359;
20. and N. Walker, "Taking Constitutionalism Beyond the State", RECON Online Working Papers (2007), 1-18;
21. C. Walter, "Constitutionalizing (Inter)national Governance: Possibilities for and Limits to the Development of an International Constitutional Law", German Yearbook of International Law 44 (2001), 170-201;
22. H. Schepel, The Constitution of Private Governance: Product Standards in the Regulation of Integrating Markets (Oxford: Hart, 2005), 161 ff.;
23. For a parallel diagnosis in the 'new economic constitutionalism', see J. Tully, "The Imperialism of Modern Constitutional Democracy", in N. Walker and M. Loughlin, eds, The Paradox of Constitutionalism: Constituent Power and Constitutional Form (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 315-338.
24. G. Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), 15 et seq.;
25. M. Foucault, Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (London: Penguin Books, 1991);
26. P. Legendre, Leçons VIII. Le crime du caporal Lortie. Traité sur le père (Paris: Fayard, 1989).
27. J.-F. Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), cif. 1 et seq.
28. N. Luhmann, Rechtssystem und Rechtsdogmatik (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1974);
29. N. Luhmann, Ausdifferenzierung des Rechts: Beiträge zur Rechtssoziologie und Rechtstheorie (Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1981), 374 et seq.
30. J. Derrida, "Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority", Cardozo Law Review 11 (1990), at 969.