This book takes a stand against the narrowing focus of (German) jurisprudence on state law, rooted in the history of the territorially organised nation state. In the shadow of this tradition, state(-hood) law was only conceived of as state law. However, a gradual decoupling of state and law is...

Public goods and human rights are sometimes treated as intimately related, if not interchangeable, strategies to address matters of common global concern. The aim of the present contribution is to disentangle the two notions to shed some critical light on their respective potential to attend to...

Verlagsinfo: Sovereignty - the authority of a state to wield ultimate power over its territory, its citizens, its institutions - is everywhere undergoing change as states respond in various ways to the challenges posed, from above and below. "Above" the state is the widening net of international...