Globalisation and the world revolution -- Law and authority in space and time -- The original European community -- Universal law and the papal revolution -- Territorial law and the rise of the state -- The reformation of state authority -- The constricted universalism of the nation-state -- The incomplete authority of the nation-state -- The return of universalist law : human rights and free trade -- The twenty-first century European community -- International commercial law and private governance
Summary
Exploring what globalisation can teach us about Western legal tradition through seminal events
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-348) and index
