International Governance and Law: State Regulation and Non-state Law

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Hanneke Van Schooten, Jonathan Verschuuren
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008 M01 1 - 256 pages
Around the world, the role of national regulation is often hotly debated. This book takes as its starting point the fact that legislatures and regulators are criticized for overregulation and for producing poor-quality regulation which ignores input from
 

Contents

1 Introduction
1
PART 1 Nonstate law in theory
9
2 What is nonstate law? Mapping the other hemisphere of the legal world
11
incipient law state law and the rule of law
31
the interdependent functionality of state and nonstate regulation
56
5 Can there be law without the state? The EhrlichKelsen debate revisited in a globalizing setting
74
6 Ehrlichs nonstate law and the Roman jurists
94
PART 2 Nonstate law in practice
107
state and nonstate regulatory activities related to nanotechnological development
129
state and nonstate actors work in partnership to enforce legal and moral norms
151
native title law in Australia
168
the role of nonstate law at the end of life
191
12 The influence of court judgments on nonstate law
209
towards a fruitful relationship between state regulation and nonstate law
221
Index
231
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the future public policy agenda
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