General Jurisprudence: Understanding Law from a Global PerspectiveThis book explores how globalisation influences the understanding of law. Adopting a broad concept of law and a global perspective, it critically reviews mainstream Western traditions of academic law and legal theory. Its central thesis is that most processes of so called 'globalisation' take place at sub global levels and that a healthy cosmopolitan discipline of law should encompass all levels of social relations and the legal ordering of these