The Law's Ultimate Frontier: Towards an Ecological Jurisprudence: A Global Horizon in Private International Law

This book offers an interdisciplinary vision of private international law as a heuristic for re-working our general understandings of legality in response to global ecological crises. It borrows from Bruno Latour, indigenous cosmologies, extinction theories, and Levinassian phenomenology to demonstrate why this field's specific frontier location at the outpost of the law generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This groundbreaking book presents an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or the conflict of laws) can serve as a heuristic for re-working our general understandings of legality in ways that respond to the ever-deepening global ecological crises. Unlike traditional legal scholarship, the author employs a bricolage approach, drawing from the work of Bruno Latour, indigenous cosmologies, extinction theories, and Levinassian phenomenology, to demonstrate why this field's unique frontier location at the outpost of the law, where it is viewed from the outside as obscure and from the inside as a self-contained normative world, generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally. By combining pragmatic and pluralist theory with an excavation of the 'shadow ecological dimensions of law,' the author, a recognized authority within the field as conventionally understood, offers a truly global perspective. In essence, this book can be considered a generational magnum opus that all international and transnational lawyers, whether in the private or public sector, should read.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509940103