This chapter is the substantively revised and expanded version of the original contribution to the first edition of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (J.Smits, ed. 2006, 738-754). It reviews and discusses the theoretical scholarship of transnational law, going back to Philip Jessup's...

Much has been written on jurisdictional problems arising out of the transnationality of the internet in various legal fields. This article approaches this jurisprudence from an angle that emphasises the underlying substance of the concerns - by joining it with the quite separate discourse on...

Over roughly the last ten years, there has been an explosion of scholarship on transnational labour law, as commentators attempt to come to terms with the shifting labour law paradigm in the new economy. Most of the work has filled law review pages. Fortunately, Sir Bob Hepple has led the way in...

The Japanese Antimonopoly Act (AMA, 1947) does not state how far its provisions reach internationally, and the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has been very cautious about applying the AMA to actions taken abroad. Instead, there is a special provision, Article 6, that prohibits enterprises...

The 135 member countries in the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS are considering the adoption of a global minimum corporate income tax for taxing multinationals as part of the Pillar Two (GloBE) proposals for taxing the digital economy. This article provides a detailed analysis of the global...

This is an edited version of a lecture on the use of local litigation as an instrument of global regulation. It asks whether the increasingly global aspect of business networks, and of the harms those networks can cause, demands a reexamination of the paradigm that we use to articulate the role...

The 135 member countries in the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS are considering the adoption of a global minimum corporate income tax for taxing multinationals as part of the Pillar Two (GloBE) proposals for taxing the digital economy. This article provides a detailed analysis of the global...

The rise of transnational armed conflicts (conflicts between states and non-state actors) has raised complicated questions about the scope of such conflicts and the law applicable to them. When does human rights law exclusively govern a situation and at what point does IHL also apply? One...