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Chapter 16: Transnational Legal Process Theories, Maya Steinitz
Chapter 16: Transnational Legal Process Theories, Maya Steinitz
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THIS chapter is devoted to transnational legal process theories. In 1955, Philip Jessup, in his Storrs Lectures at Yale, famously coined the term “transnational law” as he searched for a concept that would capture the legal regulation of actions or events that transcend national boundaries and that can accommodate both public and private international law. Further, while the traditional concept of “international law” referred to the law regulating relationships between states, the new term encompassed legal relationships of and amongst individuals, corporations, and organizations as well as states.
In other words, as early as the 1950s, and thereafter with increased …