Transnational Law: Legal Order in an Age of Globalization (3) (ILS 220)

Professor Ruti Teitel

Transnational law considers the problem of legal order in our contemporary age of globalization from a pluralist perspective, examining how legal rules and institutions are evolving--at the domestic, regional and international levels--to create new rights and responsibilities that transcend national boundaries: rights and responsibilities of individuals; groups such as ethnic minorities and peoples; and other collectivities, such as multinational corporations. The considerable focus on non-state actors and the transnational dimensions of domestic and regional legal ordering distinguishes the perspective and emphasis of this course from that of international law. Topics include human rights and humanitarian law; international criminal law (including transnational dimensions of domestic criminal justice such as universal jurisdiction, and extradition and the relationship of domestic tribunals to international and hybrid tribunals); human security from a transnational point of view, including legal issues related to internal conflict and failed states; problems of displacement of and protection of persons and peoples; and transnational legal issues that arise post-conflict and following regime change.