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Private International Law As Global Governance: Beyond The Schize, From Closet To Planet, Horatia Muir-Watt
Private International Law As Global Governance: Beyond The Schize, From Closet To Planet, Horatia Muir-Watt
Horatia Muir-Watt
Despite the contemporary turn to law within the global governance debate, private international law remains remarkably silent before the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth and power in the world. By leaving such matters to its public international counterpart, it leaves largely untended the private causes of crisis and injustice affecting such areas as financial markets, levels of environmental pollution, the status of sovereign debt, the confiscation of natural resources, the use and misuse of development aid, the plight of migrating populations, and many more. This incapacity to rise to the private challenges of economic globalisation is all the more curious …
Private International Law As Global Governance: Beyond The Schize, From Closet To Planet, Horatia Muir-Watt
Private International Law As Global Governance: Beyond The Schize, From Closet To Planet, Horatia Muir-Watt
Horatia Muir-Watt
Despite the contemporary turn to law within the global governance debate, private international law remains remarkably silent before the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth and power in the world. By leaving such matters to its public international counterpart, it leaves largely untended the private causes of crisis and injustice affecting such areas as financial markets, levels of environmental pollution, the status of sovereign debt, the confiscation of natural resources, the use and misuse of development aid, the plight of migrating populations, and many more. This incapacity to rise to the private challenges of economic globalisation is all the more curious …