The ‘Rule of Law’ and International Political Economy: Starting a conversation
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Christopher May
Abstract
Although there have always been some scholars in International Political Economy (IPE), who have acknowledged the importance of (international) law, even in recent writing on global governance the actuality of legal structures is often unexamined, and the valorisation of the ‘rule of law’ accepted relatively uncritically. Thus, while certainly there has been a frequent examination of parts of the global legal regime (international law in various sectors, or issue areas) few if any scholars have attempted a more general account of the ‘rule of law’ as it relates to IPE. This article develops a research agenda for establishing a more robust and detailed account of law in IPE, focussing on the ‘rule of law’ as a crucial entry point for IPE-based analysis to fruitfully engage with legal scholars. The article begins to lay the ground work for a multi-disciplinary account of the international rule of law, that would question the sometime casual reification of law, and seek to understand why increasingly the ‘rule of law’ is seen as a master value of the global system.
© 2007 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie – The German Journal of Law and Society
- Introduction
- Across the Channel and Beyond: British-German Socio-Legal Encounters
- I. Doing Socio-Legal Research: International Perspectives
- Understanding Law in Many Worlds: Socio- and Empirical Legal Research in the UK and Germany
- Conducting Law Reform Research: A Comparative Perspective
- The Policy-Demand for Social Research in Civil Justice: The UK Perspective
- II. Regulating through Law Globally
- The ‘Rule of Law’ and International Political Economy: Starting a conversation
- Social Regulation in the Air Transport Industry – An Examination of Regulation 1107/2006 concerning the Rights of Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility when travelling by Air
- Business and Self-regulation: Results from a Comparative Study on the Prevention of Economic Crime
- The Body Politic: Ethical Concerns, Regulatory Dilemmas and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the European Union
- III. Where The Law lives: Communities, Courts and the International
- Why English Crown Courts and German District Courts are more than just dissimilar
- (Post)Colonial Culture and the South African Legal System: Understanding the Relationship between Living Customary Law and State Law
- Good Faith in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Mapping a Shift from Enforcement to Voluntary Compliance
- Risk, Human Rights and the Management of a Serious Sex Offender
- Rezensionen
- Ankündigungen
- Call for Papers: „Menschenrechte in der Weltgesellschaft – Zur Entstehung, Verbreitung und Umsetzung von Menschenrechten aus globaler Perspektive“
- Call for Sessions and Papers: „Wie wirkt Recht? Interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung zwischen Rechtswirklichkeit, Rechtsanalyse und Rechtsgestaltung“
- Autorinnen und Autoren der Rezensionen
- Korrektur Autorenadresse von Heft 1, 2007
- Hinweise für Autorinnen und Autoren
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie – The German Journal of Law and Society
- Introduction
- Across the Channel and Beyond: British-German Socio-Legal Encounters
- I. Doing Socio-Legal Research: International Perspectives
- Understanding Law in Many Worlds: Socio- and Empirical Legal Research in the UK and Germany
- Conducting Law Reform Research: A Comparative Perspective
- The Policy-Demand for Social Research in Civil Justice: The UK Perspective
- II. Regulating through Law Globally
- The ‘Rule of Law’ and International Political Economy: Starting a conversation
- Social Regulation in the Air Transport Industry – An Examination of Regulation 1107/2006 concerning the Rights of Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility when travelling by Air
- Business and Self-regulation: Results from a Comparative Study on the Prevention of Economic Crime
- The Body Politic: Ethical Concerns, Regulatory Dilemmas and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the European Union
- III. Where The Law lives: Communities, Courts and the International
- Why English Crown Courts and German District Courts are more than just dissimilar
- (Post)Colonial Culture and the South African Legal System: Understanding the Relationship between Living Customary Law and State Law
- Good Faith in Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Mapping a Shift from Enforcement to Voluntary Compliance
- Risk, Human Rights and the Management of a Serious Sex Offender
- Rezensionen
- Ankündigungen
- Call for Papers: „Menschenrechte in der Weltgesellschaft – Zur Entstehung, Verbreitung und Umsetzung von Menschenrechten aus globaler Perspektive“
- Call for Sessions and Papers: „Wie wirkt Recht? Interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung zwischen Rechtswirklichkeit, Rechtsanalyse und Rechtsgestaltung“
- Autorinnen und Autoren der Rezensionen
- Korrektur Autorenadresse von Heft 1, 2007
- Hinweise für Autorinnen und Autoren
