Unitary Law Re-Form, Pluralistic Law Re-Substance: Illuminating Legal Change

Abstract

The theme of this symposium, Law Making in a Global World, can be iterated in two ways, depending on how one understands the term "law making." We might imagine how "globalization" affects the manner in which domestic law is conceived, instantiated, brought into force, interpreted, and applied. Or we might imagine how "global law" as transnational law is itself conceived, instantiated, brought into force, interpreted, and applied. The very possibility of these two readings, which signals the internal and external dimensions of legal change, evokes the central ideas I seek to develop in the two main Parts of this article.