Authorities: Conflicts, Cooperation, and Transnational Legal Theory - Nicole Roughan

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Résumé :
How can legal authority be explained beyond the sovereign state? Roughan argues that instances of transnational and international law, along with overlapping constitutional orders, should be regarded as having shared, interdependent and relative authority.

Biographie:
Nicole Roughan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, and formerly of the National University of Singapore where she was Associate Professor and Deputy-Director of the Centre for Legal Theory. Nicole is currently working on a new book,Officials. In 2017 Nicole was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Aparangi, to pursue a five-year project on Legalities: Jurisprudence without Borders.

Sommaire:
Introduction ; PART I: AUTHORITY AND PLURALITY ; 2. Understanding Authority ; 3. Plural Authorities and Inter-Authority Relationships ; 4. Plurality of Authority in Legal/Constitutional Theory ; PART II: THE PUZZLES OF PLURAL AUTHORITY ; 5. Compatible and Complementary Relationships ; 6. Actual and Apparent Conflict ; PART III: A PLURALIST CONCEPTION OF AUTHORITY ; 7. A Conjunctive Justification ; 8. 'Relative Authority' ; 9. The Relative Authority of Law: 'Pluralist Jurisprudence' ; PART IV: RELATIVE AUTHORITY IN INTERNATIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL (AND) CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ; 10. Relative Authority in Public International Law and Transnational Law ; 11. Understanding Europe: from Constitutional Pluralism to Relative Authority ; 12. Relative Authority Inside the State ; 13. A Case Study in Relative Authority: Crown-Maori Relationships in New Zealand