Globalization and the Law: Deciphering the Message of Transnational Human Rights Litigation

German Law Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1499-1520

  Zumbansen, Peer ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/S2071832200013377     Document Type: Article

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1. See the decision at: http://www.bverfg.de/entscheidungen/rs20041014_2bvr148104.html.
2. “The legislature shall be bound by the constitutional order, the executive and the judiciary by law and justice.” 3 Formal case citation, sub C I
3. (“The obligation to respect the law and justice (Art. 20.3) also applies to the observation of the ECHR guarantees as well as the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights within the confines of methodologically justifiable statutory interpretation. The failure to consider a decision of the Court, just as much as a schematic “execution” of the Court’s law against prioritary law may constitute a violation of fundamental rights in connection with the command of the Rule of Law.” (Translated by Russell Miller)).
4. Filàrtiga v. Pena-Irala, 630 F.2d 876 (1980), available at: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/filartiga-630F2d876.html.
5. see hereto, e.g., Stephens, Translating Filártiga: A Comparative and International Law Analysis of Domestic Remedies for International Human Rights Violations, 27 YALE J. INT’L L. 1 (2002).
6. Still, the authoritative formula is offered by Jessup, TRANSNATIONAL LAW (1954), 1-16.
7. Scott/Wai, Transnational Governance of Corporate Conduct through the Migration of Human Rights Norms: The Potential of Transnational “Private” Litigation, in: TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE AND CONSTITUTIONALISM 287-319 (JOERGES/SAND/TEUBNER ED. 2004).
8. For an overview of the concept’s origin and subsequent development my “Transnational Law” in: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW (JAN SMITS ED.), forthcoming 2005.
9. see already Zumbansen, Piercing the Legal Veil: Commercial Arbitration and Transnational Law, in: 8 EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL 400-432 (2002).
10. See only Schepel, Constituting Private Governance Regimes: Standards Bodies in American Law, in:TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE AND CONSTITUTIONALISM 161 (JOERGES/SAND/TEUBNER EDS. 2004).
11. There are proposals in this regard: see, e.g., Starck, Die Rechtswissenschaft in der Zukunft, in: FESTSCHRIFT BROHM 567 (EBERLE/IBLER/LORENZ EDS. 2002), (trusting in the rationality of our “legal methodology” to select from the influences of Globalization what is worthy).
12. on the other hand, see Kennedy, Two Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-1968, in: 36 SUFFOLK L. REV. 631 (2003) (reconstructing the rise and fall of formalist ‘classical legal thought’ and the emergence of ‘the social’ as the subsequently dominating theme in legal theory).
13. while Kennedy’s article still holds the promise to extend (in a sequel) to globalized law as such, see for an assessment of ‘the social’ in transnational civil litigation: Scott/Wai, Transnational Governance of Corporate Conduct through the Migration of Human Rights Norms: The Potential of Transnational “Private” Litigation, in: (JOERGES/SAND/TEUBNER EDS)., (1954), 1-16, at 294.
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18. Stephens, Translating Filártiga: A Comparative and International Law Analysis of Domestic Remedies for International Human Rights Violations, 27 YALE J. INT’L L. 1-57 (2002).
19. see also the contributions in LETHE’S LAW:JUSTICE, LAW AND ETHICS IN RECONCILIATION (CHRISTODOULIDIS/VEITCH EDS. 2001).
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25. On the erosion of this boundary, see the references, Reimann, The End of Comparative Law as an autonomous subject, TULANE EUROPEAN AND CIVIL LAW FORUM 49-72 (1996).
26. see also Reimann, The End of Comparative Law as an autonomous subject, TULANE EUROPEAN AND CIVIL LAW FORUM 49-72 (1996).
27. Ginsburg, Looking Beyond Our Borders: The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication, 40 IDAHO L. REV. 1-10 (2003), particularly highlighting the relevance of the German Law Journal in this light, id., at 3.
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30. See Morgan, Slaughterhouse-Six: Updating the Law of War, in: 5 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL 525-544 (2004), available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol05No05/PDF_Vol_05_No_05_525-544_special_issue_Morgan.pdf.
31. Koh, Separating Myth from Reality About Corporate Responsibility Litigation, 7 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW 263-274 (2004)
32. See hereto the accounts by Baumgartner, Human Rights and Civil Litigation in United States Courts: The Holocaust-Era Cases, 80 WASH. U. L. QUARTERLY 835-854 (2002).
33. Bazyler, WWW.SWISSBANKCLAIMS.COM: The Legality and Morality of the Holocaust-Era Settlement with the Swiss Banks, 25 FORDHAM INT’L L. J. 64-106 (2001).
34. Neuborne, WWW.SWISSBANKCLAIMS.COM: The Legality and Morality of the Holocaust-Era Settlement with the Swiss Banks, note 12.
35. Adler/Zumbansen, The Forgetfulness of Noblesse: A Critique of the German Foundation Law Compensating Slave and Forced Laborers of the Third Reich, 39 HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION [and in: ZWANGSARBEIT IM DRITTEN REICH:ERINNERUNG UND VERANTWORTUNG /NS FORCED LABOR: REMEMBRANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY 333 (P. ZUMBANSEN ED. 2002)] 1-61 (2002)
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41. Scott, Translating Torture into Transnational Tort: Conceptual Divides in the Debate on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Harms, in: TORTURE AS TORT 45-63 (SCOTT ED. 2001), at 52.
42. a brilliant reconstruction of the emergence of transnational legal conceptualizing that consistently draws on the intertwined perspectives of domestic and international law theorizing is provided by Koh, Transnational Legal Process, 75 NEBRASKA LAW REVIEW 181-206 (1996).
43. see also Aceves, Liberalism and International Legal Scholarship: The Pinochet Case and the Move Toward a Universal System of Transnational Law Litigation, 41 Harvard International Law Journal (Harv. Int’l L.J.) 129-184 (2000).
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50. Filàrtiga was brought under the “rarely invoked” (Irving R. Kaufman, Cir.J., id., at 878) ALIEN TORT CLAIMS ACT of 1789 [28 U.S.C.A. § 1350] (available at: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=28&sec=1350). The case recognized federal jurisdiction in cases brought before its Courts for “deliberate torture perpetrated under color of official authority violates universally accepted norms of the international law of human rights, regardless of the nationality of the parties.” (Id.) The case set off a wave of cases for human rights violations perpetrated abroad by governments or private entities, see for a concise account
51. Scott, Translating Torture into Transnational Tort: Conceptual Divides in the Debate on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Harms, in: TORTURE AS TORT 45-63 (SCOTT ED. 2001).
52. See the concise analysis by Michaels, Three Proceedings of Legal Unification: National, International, Transnational, 96 A.S.I.L. PROCEEDINGS 333-336 (2002).
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57. See Safferling, Can Criminal Prosecution be the Answer to massive Human Rights Violations?, in this issue.
58. PHILIP JESSUP, TRANSNATIONAL LAW 11 (1956).
59. Scott, Translating Torture into Transnational Tort: Conceptual Divides in the Debate on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Harms, in: TORTURE AS TORT 45-63 (SCOTT ED. 2001).
60. Zumbansen, Piercing the Legal Veil: Commercial Arbitration and Transnational Law, 8 EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL 400-432 (2002).
61. See hereto the contribution by Kemmerer, Like Ancient Beacons: The European Union and the International Criminal Court-Reflections from afar on a Chapter of European Foreign Policy, in this issue.
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82. Zumbansen, Public Values, Private Contracts and the Colliding Worlds of Family and Market, 11 FEMINIST LEGAL STUDIES 73-87 (2003).
83. Helfer, Constitutional Analogies in the International Legal System, LOY. L. A. L. REV. 193-236 (2003).
84. Choudhry, The Lochner Era and Comparative Constitutionalism, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW, PUBLIC LAW AND LEGAL THEORY RESEARCH PAPER No. 02-22 (2002)
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90. See, e.g., Choudhry, The Lochner Era and Comparative Constitutionalism, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 02-22 (2002)
91. See the brilliant assessment by Michaels, Im Westen nichts Neues?, 66 RABELSZ 97-115 (2003).
92. Wai, Transnational Liftoff and Juridical Touchdown: The Regulatory Function of Private International Law in an Era of Globalization, 40 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 209-274 (2002).
93. KALDOR, GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: AN ANSWER TO WAR 2003).
94. Anheier/Kaldor/Glasius, Global Civil Society in an Era of Regressive Globalisation: The State of Global Civil Society in 2003, in: Global Civil Society Yearbook 2003 3-33 (Anheier/Kaldor/Glasius Ed. 2003)
95. Teubner, ‘Global Bukowina’: Legal Pluralism in the World Society, in: GLOBAL LAW WITHOUT A STATE 3-28 (TEUBNER ED. 1997).
96. See only the assessment by Schneiderman, Investment Rules and the New Constitutionalism, 25 LAW & SOC INQUIRY 757-783 (2000).
97. See, e.g., from the German constitutional perspective, DI FABIO, DER VERFASSUNGSSTAAT IN DER WELTGESELLSCHAFT 2001)
98. Hobe, Der offene Verfassungsstaat zwischen Souveränität und Interdependenz. Eine Studie zur Wandlung des deutschen Staatsbegriffs der deutschsprachigen Staatslehre im Kontext internationaler institutionalisierter Kooperation 1998)
99. Frankenberg, Shifting Boundaries: The Private, the Public, and the Welfare State, in: The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare 72-94 (Katz/Sachße Ed. 1996)
100. see also Hobson/Ramesh, Globalisation Makes of States What States Make of It:Between Agency and Structure in the State/Globalisation Debate, 7 NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY 5-22 (2002).
101. Very insightful Habermas, Die postnationale Konstellation und die Zukunft der Demokratie, in: 7, Die postnationale Konstellation (1998) 91-169.
102. see now the very outspoken return to a critical theory of democracy within the nation-state and its lessons for the ‘post-national constellation’ by Habermas, Hat die Konstitutionalisierung des Völkerrechts noch eine Chance?, in: 7, Der gespaltene Westen (2004) 113-193.
103. See only Koskenniemi, ‘The Lady Doth Protest Too Much’. Kosovo, and the Turn to Ethics in International Law, 65 Modern Law Review 159-175 (2002).
104. See only Koskenniemi, Book Review-Giovanna Boradori (ed.), Philosophy in a Time of Terror.
105. Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (2003), in: 4 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 10 (1 October 2003), 1087-1094, available at: http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdf/Vol04No10/PDF_Vol_04_No_10_1087-1094_Legal_Culture_Koskenniemi.pdf.
106. Knop, Here and There: International Law in Domestic Courts, 32 N.Y.U. J. INT’L L & POL. 501-535 (2000).
107. See, e.g., Neuborne, Preliminary Reflections on Aspects of Holocaust-Era Litigation in American Courts, 80 Washington University Law Quarterly 795-834 (2002), at 795
108. see also Eizenstat, Imperfect Justice. Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003).
109. See the overview by Bazyler, WWW.SWISSBANKCLAIMS.COM: The Legality and Morality of the Holocaust-Era Settlement with the Swiss Banks, 25 FORDHAM INT’L L. J. 64-106 (2001).
110. Neuborne, Preliminary Reflections on Aspects of Holocaust-Era Litigation in American Courts, 80 Washington University Law Quarterly 795-834 (2002).
111. in contrast to these overly sympathetic accounts (and their appraisal of US legal litigation culture), see the comments by Baumgartner, Human Rights and Civil Litigation in United States Courts: The Holocaust-Era Cases, 80 WASH. U. L. QUARTERLY 835-854 (2002), identifying the political pressure exerted on the litigants.
112. See hereto, e.g., Bazyler, WWW.SWISSBANKCLAIMS.COM: The Legality and Morality of the Holocaust-Era Settlement with the Swiss Banks, 25 FORDHAM INT’L L. J. 64-106 (2001), at 64, who concentrates on routes to monetary compensation when thinking of other “movements aiming to bring justice for historical wrongs”.
113. Mainly for the recompensation of never paid out so-called dormant bank accounts in Swiss Banks, insurance claims as well as for looted assets and slave labor.
114. Bazyler, The Holocaust Restitution Movement in Comparative Perspective, 20 BERKELEY J. INT’L L. 11-44 (2002).
115. Neuborne, Preliminary Reflections on Aspects of Holocaust-Era Litigation in American Courts, 80 Washington University Law Quarterly 795-834 (2002).
116. Adler/Zumbansen, The Forgetfulness of Noblesse: A Critique of the German Foundation Law Compensating Slave and Forced Laborers of the Third Reich, 39 HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION [and in: ZWANGSARBEIT IM DRITTEN REICH: ERINNERUNG UND VERANTWORTUNG /NS FORCED LABOR: REMEMBRANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY 333 (P. ZUMBANSEN ED. 2002)] 1-61 (2002).
117. BENJAMIN B. FERENCZ, LESS THAN SLAVES:JEWISH FORCED LABOR AND THE QUEST FOR COMPENSATION (1979).
118. ULRICH HERBERT, FREMDARBEITER:POLITIK UND PRAXIS DES “AUSLANDER-EINSATZES” IN DER KRIEGSWIRTSCHAFT DES DRITTEN REICHES (2d Ed. 1999).
119. Wolfgang Benz, Zwangsarbeit im nationalsozialistischen Staat, 16 DACHAUER HEFTE 3, 3-17 (2000).
120. Vagts/Murray, Litigating the Nazi Labor Claims: The Path Not Taken, 43 Harvard International Law Journal (Harv. Int’l L.J.) 503-530 (2002).
121. For a critique of this case law, see Safferling/Zumbansen, Iura novit curia: Rechtsanspruch auf Entschädigung für Zwangsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus, in: JURISTISCHE RUNDSCHAU 6-11 (2002) [reprinted in: ZWANGSARBEIT IM DRITTEN REICH: ERINNERUNG UND VERANTWORTUNG /NS FORCED LABOR:REMEMBRANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY (P. ZUMBANSEN ED. 2002)].
122. from the U.S. case law, see in particular Burger-Fischer v. Degussa AG, 65 F. Supp. 2d 248, 279-81 (D.N.J. 1999).
123. see Iwanowa v. Ford Motor Co., 67 F. Supp. 2d 424 (D.N.J. 1999).
124. See Roger Cohen, Last Chapter: Berlin to Pay Slave Workers Held by Nazis, N.Y. TIMES, May 31, 2001, at A7. The Foundation began making payments on June 19, 2001.
125. See Stephanie Flanders, Payments Begin for Laborers Forced to Work for the Nazis, N.Y. TIMES, June 20, 2001, at A10.
126. See for an account of this development, Anheier/Kaldor/Glasius, Global Civil Society in an Era of Regressive Globalisation: The State of Global Civil Society in 2003, in: Global Civil Society Yearbook 2003 3-33 (Anheier/Kaldor/Glasius Ed. 2003). Note: At the time the Foundation grew out of a German industry wide initiative to create a compensation fund to end class action suits for forced labor recompensation, the present author and his collaborator, Libby Adler, envisioned working together on the litigation and the Foundation with a particular focus on the regulatory aspects of the Foundation. Thus, our original focus was the changing face of public services and the emerging phenomena of ‘private ordering’ and societal self-regulation. We therefore aimed at exploring the relevance of private law theory within new forms of public service delivery and delegations of public duties (and powers) to private actors. The Foundation offered itself as a perfect instance where a regulatory function, while clearly demarcated as public in nature, had been transferred upon several private actors, the so-called partner organizations responsible for the assessment and the compensation of the claims. The choice of studying the litigation and the Foundation from that angle proved to be one that would eventually guide and inform the authors’ further outlook on law and on their work in general in the future. Every aspect of our research and of our teaching a seminar to a group of German and foreign LL.B. and graduate students in Germany, accompanied by the testimony of direct participants in the post-war restitution efforts, the recent class action litigation in American courts, and the contemporary creation and administration of the Foundation, lead to a whole chain of further questions regarding, ultimately, law’s role in bringing past injustice before a judicial forum. Thus, the fate of the litigants as well as of those that fought with or against them became deeply intertwined with issues regarding the adjudication of past wrongs, the purpose and ultimate merit of judicial treatment of claims for compensation, recognition and acknowledgment, the importance of establishing legal responsibility compared with otherwise motivated and comparatively easily accepted “moral”, “historical” or “political” responsibility, as documented in the preamble of the Foundation law (http://www.stiftung-evz.de/). But, increasingly, law’s boundaries became porous and law’s demarcation from ubiquitous discourses on reconciliation, societal memory and confronting ‘darker legacies’ proved ever more difficult.
127. Neuborne, Preliminary Reflections on Aspects of Holocaust-Era Litigation in American Courts, 80 Washington University Law Quarterly 795-834 (2002).
128. Bazyler, WWW.SWISSBANKCLAIMS.COM: The Legality and Morality of the Holocaust-Era Settlement with the Swiss Banks, 25 FORDHAM INT’L L. J. 64-106 (2001).
129. see hereto Niethammer, Beschädigte Gerechtigkeit-Entschädigung von Zwangsarbeitern als Paradigma, in: ZWANGSARBEIT IM DRITTEN REICH: ERINNERUNG UND VERANTWORTUNG. NS-FORCED LABOR: REMEMBRANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY. ZEITHISTORISCHE UND JURISTISCHE BETRACHTUNGEN/HISTORICAL AND LEGAL OBSERVATIONS 259-276 (ZUMBANSEN ED. 2002), pointing to the other dimensions of recognition of past injustice.
130. See, e.g., Miller, Much Ado, But Nothing: California’s New World War II Slave Labor Law Statute Of Limitations And Its Place In The Increasingly Futile Effort To Obtain Compensation From American Courts, 23 WHITTIER LAW REVIEW 121-136 (2002), reprinted in: ZWANGSARBEIT IM DRITTEN REICH: ERINNERUNG UND VERANTWORTUNG. NS-FORCED LABOR: REMEMBRANCE AND RESPONSIBILITY. ZEITHISTORISCHE UND JURISTISCHE BETRACHTUNGEN/HISTORICAL AND LEGAL OBSERVATIONS (ZUMBANSEN ED. 2002).
131. See hereto, e.g., Neuborne, Preliminary Reflections on Aspects of Holocaust-Era Litigation in American Courts, 80 Washington University Law Quarterly 795-834 (2002)
132. Bazyler, The Holocaust Restitution Movement in Comparative Perspective, 20 BERKELEY J. INT’L L. 11-44 (2002).
133. Miller, Reconceiving Reparations:Multiple Strategies in the Reparations Debate, 24 BOSTON COLLEGE THIRD WORLD LAW JOURNAL 45-79 (2004).
134. See, on the limits of law (also) in that respect, Goodwin, White Knights On Chargers: Using The US Approach To Promote Roma Rights In Europe?, in this issue.
135. See, hereto, the analysis by Miller, in: MSU-DCL J. INT’L L. 2004, forthcoming.
136. See Section 16 No. 2 of the Foundation Law of 2 August 2000, available at: http://www.stiftungevz. de/.
137. See, e.g., http://www.hagalil.com/archiv/99/11/gerecht.htm
138. http://www.zeit.de/archiv/2000/20/200020.kolumne.xml.
139. Slaughter, A Typology of Transjudicial Communications, 29 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND LAW REVIEW 99-137 (1994).
140. see also Slaughter, A Typology of Transjudicial Communications, 29, A NEW WORLD ORDER (2004), for the reference to the Supreme Court’s comparative perspective in Lawrence v. Texas (2003).
141. Helfer, Constitutional Analogies in the International Legal System, LOY. L. A. L. REV. 193-236 (2003).
142. Romano, The Proliferation of International Judicial Bodies: The Pieces of the Puzzle, 31 New York University Journal of International Law and Policy (N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol.) 709-751 (1999).
143. Alford, The Proliferation of International Courts and Tribunals: International Adjudication in Ascendance, 94 American Society of International Law Proceedings 160-165 (2000).
144. This is the basic motivation for the creation of the ICT (International-Transnational-Comparative) Curriculum Stream at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, a two-year program that allows for a specialization in the named larger disciplinary fields with a strong focus on the national-international ‘interface’ as students are invited to reflect on the interpenetration of globalized fields of legal doctrine:http://www.yorku.ca/osgoode/streams/#ict.
145. Ongoing Comparative Curriculum Overview Study at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, on file with author.
146. See, e.g., from a student’s perspective, Carlson, Why Slavery Reparations are Good for Civil Procedure Class, 47 ST. LOUIS U. L. J. 139-147 (2003).
147. Arthurs, Poor Canadian Legal Education: So Near to Wall Street, So Far from God, 38 OSGOODE HALL LAW JOURNAL 381 (2000).
148. Wiethölter, Die Wirtschaftspraxis als Rechtsquelle, in: DAS RECHTSWESEN-LENKER ODER SPIEGEL DER GESELLSCHAFT? 165-185 (BOCKELMANN ED. 1971).
149. The same applies, however, certainly in jurisdictions where law is a so-called First Degree of study, such as Germany or France.
150. see Windel, Scheinspezialisierung und Verzettelung als mögliche Folgen der Juristenausbildungsreform, JURA 79-82 (2003).
151. See Derrida, Force of Law. “The Mystical Foundation of Authority”, 11 CARDOZO L. REV. 921 (1990).
152. see hereto the very fine interpretation by Orford, Critical Intimacy: Jacques Derrida and the Friendship of Politics, in: 6 GERMAN LAW JOURNAL No. 1 (1 January 2005), forthcoming in a Special Dedication Section on the late Jacques Derrida with contributions, inter alia, by Peter Krapp, Adam Thurschwell, Friedrich Balke, Dirk Baecker, Drucilla Cornell, Pierre Schlag, Elisabeth Weber, Peter Goodrich, Simon Critchley, Petra Gehring and Costas Douzinas.
153. Wiethölter, Begriffs-oder Interessenjurisprudenz. Falsche Fronten im IPR-und Wirtschaftsverfassungsrecht, in: INTERNATIONALES PRIVATRECHT UND RECHTSVERGLEICHUNG IM AUSGANG DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS. FESTSCHRIFT FÜR GERHARD KEGEL 213 (A. LÜDERITZ/J. SCHRÖDER EDS. 1977), at 234.
154. “Es hilft nicht weiter, unsere Vergangenheit vor 1945 als positivistisch’ und nach 1945 als ʼnichtpositivistisch’ zu würdigen. Einen Positivismus, der diesen Namen aus heutiger Sicht verdiente, hat es in der jüngeren Rechtsgeschichte (noch) nicht gegeben. Eine brauchbarere und zukunftsträchtigere Fragestellung ist es wohl, wie ‘positives’ Recht als zugleich ‘richtiges’ Recht denn zu gewährleisten sei.” See also Wiethölter, Recht-Fertigungen eines Gesellschafts-Rechts, in: RECHTSVERFASSUNGSRECHT 13-21 (C JOERGES/G TEUBNER EDS. 2003).
155. see hereto, Zumbansen, Das soziale Gedächtnis des Rechts, oder: Juristische Dogmatik als Standeskunst, in: (C JOERGES/G TEUBNER EDS. 2003), 151, 154.
156. See, e.g., Cutler, Artifice, Ideology and Paradox: the Public/Private Distinction in International Law, 4 REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 261-285 (1997).
157. Zumbansen, Sustaining Paradox Boundaries: Perspectives on the Internal Affairs in Domestic and International Law, 15 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW [EJIL] 197-211 (2004).
158. Schiff Berman, The Globalization of Jurisdiction, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 311-545 (2002), at 323.
159. PHILIP JESSUP, TRANSNATIONAL LAW 7 (1956)
160. citing CARDOZO, THE NATURE OF THE JUDICIAL PROCESS 127 (1921).