Description: "This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or, conflict of laws) can and must be at the centre of re-working both our general understandings of law and concrete legal norms in directions that respond to ever-deepening global ecological crises. The author demonstrates why, paradoxically, it is this field of law's specific frontier location at the outpost of the law - where it is viewed from the outside as a mysterious obscurity and from the inside as a self-contained normative world - that generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally. Combining pragmatic and pluralist theory with an excavation of "shadow" ecological dimensions of law, the author, a recognised global expert, offers a truly transnational view. Put simply, it is a generational magnum opus. All international and transnational lawyers, be they in the private and public field, should read this book"--
Brief description: Horatia Muir Watt is Professor at Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France.
Review Quotes:
"Horatia Muir Watt's exquisitely researched and documented book is a tour de force." --Revue critique de droit International Privé (RCDIP)
"Lyrical and erudite ... This is courageous, committed work-a unique contribution in the best of the critical tradition." --Pierre Schlag, University Distinguished Professor and Byron R White Professor of Law, University of Colorado (Boulder) "[An] innovative and surprising work ... The book stands out as a rare example of a truly transdisciplinary attempt at relocating law within the human sciences. This book challenges one's understanding of private international law, and is an invitation to rethink the purpose of our involvement in its practise or scholarship." --Conflict of Laws "This book is an essential reading for all legal scholars navigating law's role in an endangered world." --European Review of Public Law