As spheres of authority in the global order increasingly overlap and provoke conflicts between them, this panel explores the ways in which these interface conflicts are dealt with and produce a new order ‘at the margins‘. Interface conflicts arise when actors have conflicting views about international norms and rules associated with international authorities. Actors from...
Conflict managers or avoiders? The role of global courts in entangling normative orders
What do the Lockerbie and US-Shrimps cases, the Swordfish dispute and the Southern Bluefin Tuna arbitration have in common? Often cited when addressing norm conflicts in international law, they were instrumental in moving interface conflicts center-stage, raising more general questions about unity and pluralism in international law. But a common terminology focused solely on conflict...
Entangled Legalities: Interface Law in the Global Order
It is widely accepted today that the global order contains a multiplicity of different normative orders. While the legal status of some of these normativities – especially those of an informal character and private origin – is still debated, the importance of multiplicity for understanding and theorizing law beyond the state is hardly disputed. Yet...
Legal interactions in the global governance of international finance
The article provides a theoretically grounded analysis of selected instances of legal interactions between bodies of norms emanating from formal and informal sources of regulatory authority in the issue area of global financial regulation. It discusses such interactions by looking at examples from global financial and accounting standards, credit rating agencies, banking and derivatives market...
New Forms of Normative Relationing in a Pluralist Legal Order: Interface Interactions in the Area of Corporate Social Responsibility
International law is confronted with an unprecedented density of normative frameworks of differing degrees of normativity (hard law, soft law) – across governance levels (international, regional, national, transnational) and around a multiplicity of topics (environment, trade, human rights). This paper addresses the overarching question of how different bodies of norms relate to each other by...