Authorities Conflicts, Cooperation, and Transnational Legal Theory

by Roughan, Nicole

• ISBN13: 9780199671410
• ISBN10: 0199671419
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Nicole Roughan, Research Fellow, New Zealand Centre for Public Law, National University of Singapore

Nicole Roughan is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, and a Research Fellow of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law. She was previously a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, a Teaching Officer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington's Faculty of Law.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Authority and Plurality
2. Understanding Authority
3. Plurality of Authority in Legal/Constitutional Theory
4. Plurality of Authority in Legal/Constitutional Theory
The Puzzles of Plural Authority
5. Compatible and Complementary Relationships
6. Actual and Apparent Conflict
A Pluralist Conception of Authority
7. A Conjunctive Justification
8. 'Relative Authority'
9. The Relative Authority of Law: 'Pluralist Jurisprudence'
Relative Authority in International, Transnational (and) Constitutional Law
10. Relative Authority in Public International Law and Transnational Law
11. Understanding Europe: from Constitutional Pluralism to Relative Authority
12. Relative Authority Inside the State
13. A Caase Study in Relative Authority: Crown-Maori Relationships in New Zealand