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A Short Practical Manual of Global Law

Original title (Spanish): Breve manual práctico de derecho global

U. Externado de Columbia, 2018

Written in Spanish — title, summary and keywords translated

Keywords

  • Global law
  • Struggle for law
  • Market economy
  • Brussels School
  • Legal pragmatism
  • Global regulation
  • Regulatory race to the bottom
  • Global indicators
  • Normative bricolage
  • State sovereignty

This work was originally written and published in Spanish. The title, summary and keywords below are a translation.

Abstract

Benoit Frydman presents a short practical manual exploring how to build a fairer global law in the context of a globalized and politically fragmented market economy. The book, aimed at multiple actors—entrepreneurs, activists, legal professionals, and citizens—teaches survival techniques and strategies for the struggle for law in a complex and dangerous environment, dominated by the 'regulatory race to the bottom' and the incoherent proliferation of global norms. Through the pragmatist methodology characteristic of the Brussels School, Benoit Frydman posits that we are all global actors responsible for the construction of law, overcoming both the myth of a world State and the illusion of a self-regulating market.

Read the summary in the original language (Spanish)

Benoit Frydman presenta un breve manual práctico que explora cómo construir un derecho global más justo en un contexto de economía de mercado globalizada y fragmentada políticamente. El libro, dirigido a múltiples actores—empresarios, activistas, juristas y ciudadanos—enseña técnicas de supervivencia y estrategias para la lucha por el derecho en un entorno complejo y peligroso, dominado por la «carrera regulatoria hacia la baja» y la proliferación incoherente de normas globales. Mediante la metodología pragmatista característica de la Escuela de Bruselas, Frydman propone que todos somos actores globales responsables de la construcción del derecho, superando tanto el mito del Estado mundial como la ilusión de un mercado autorregulado.

Themes

  • Philosophy & Theory of Law

Cite this work

Breve manual práctico de derecho global, tr. Pr. B. Carvajal Sánchez, U. Externado de Columbia, 2018.
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  year = {2018},
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