Socio-Legal Studies in a Transnational World

Abstract

The concept of transnationalism refers to border-crossing activities and social relations, such as family relations, migration, international trade and international organisations. We explain the relevance of transnationalism to socio-legal studies and the usefulness of the sociology of law for studying transnational law and transnational processes; we also discuss three challenges that transnationalism poses for the sociology of law.

Note: This paper is the introduction to a special issue of Recht der Werkelijkheid (the journal of the Dutch/Flemish Law and society Association) on Socio-legal Studies on Transnationalism.

Keywords: transnationalism, sociology of law, socio-legal studies