Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts: Essays in Honour of William Twining

Upendra Baxi · Christopher McCrudden · Abdul Paliwala

oct 2015 · Cambridge University Press

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Law's Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts examines William Twining's principal contributions to law and jurisprudence in the context of three issues which will receive significant scholarly attention over the coming decades. Part I explores human rights, including torture, the role of evidence in human rights cases, the emerging discourse on 'traditional values', the relevance of 'Southern voices' to human rights debates, and the relationship between human rights and peace agreements. Part II assesses the impact of globalization through the lenses of sociology and comparative constitutionalism, and features an analysis of the development of pluralistic ideas of law in the context of privatization. Finally, Part III addresses issues of legal theory, including whether global legal pluralism needs a concept of law, the importance of context in legal interpretation, the effect of increasing digitalization on legal theory, and the utility of feminist and postmodern approaches to globalization and legal theory.

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Upendra Baxi is Emeritus Professor of Law in Development, University of Warwick and Emeritus Professor at the University of Delhi.

Christopher McCrudden F.B.A. is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen's University Belfast and William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

Abdul Paliwala is Emeritus Professsor at the School of Law, University of Warwick.