Global territories: Zones of economic and legal dis/connectivity

Distinktion

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 261-282

  Opitz, Sven ^a   Tellmann, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Exception; Global law; Globalization; Money; Offshore; Territory; Topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877962150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21599149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1600910X.2012.724432     Document Type: Article

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