Description: This volume explores the various strategies, mechanisms, and processes that influence rule of law dynamics across borders and the national/international divide, illuminating the diverse paths of influence. It shows to what extent, and how, rule of law dynamics have changed in recent years, especially at the transnational and international levels of government. To explore these interactive dynamics, the volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the normative perspective of law with the analytical perspective of social sciences. The volume contributes to several fields, including studies of rule of law, law and development, and good governance; democratization; globalization studies; neo-institutionalism and judicial studies; international law, transnational governance, and the emerging literature on judicial reforms in authoritarian regimes; and comparative law (Islamic, African, Asian, Latin American legal systems).
Brief description: Randall Peerenboom is a law professor at La Trobe University and an associate fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He was a professor at UCLA Law School from 1998 to 2007 and director of the Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Rule of Law in China programme. He has been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, Ford Foundation, EU-China, UNDP and other international organizations on legal reforms and rule of law in China and Asia and is the co-editor in chief of The Hague Journal of Rule of Law. He is the author or co-editor of Judicial Independence in China (2010), Regulation in Asia (2009), China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? (2007), Human Rights in Asia (2006), Asian Discourses of Rule of Law (2004) and China's Long March toward Rule of Law (2002).