The New Legal Realism: Volume 2

Heinz Klug is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison. Having grown up in South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent eleven years in exile, and returned in 1990 as a member of the African National Congress Land Commission. Professor Klug's book on South Africa's democratic transition, Constituting Democracy, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. Sally Engle Merry is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author or editor of nine books, including the J. Willard Hurst Prize-winning Colonizing Hawai'i: The Cultural Power of Law (2000). Her most recent book is The Quiet Power of Indicators (coedited with Kevin Davis, Angelina Fisher, and Benedict Kingsbury, 2015).

Preface Michael McCann; Introduction Heinz Klug and Sally Engle Merry; Part I. The Globalization of Law: 1. African constitutionalism from the bottom-up Martin Chanock; 2. Human rights monitoring, state compliance, and the problem of information Sally Engle Merry; 3. Intellectual property and the creation of global rules Susan K. Sell; Part II. The Global Transfer of Norms: 4. Colonizing the clinic: the adventures of law in HIV treatment and research Carol A. Heimer and Jaimie Morse; 5. The politics of Islamic law and human rights: Sudan's rival legal systems Mark Fathi Massoud; 6. Women seeking justice at the intersection between vernacular and state laws and courts in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Sindiso Mnisi Weeks; Part III. Global Institutions and the Changing Roles of Judges and Lawyers: 7. New legal realism and international law Gregory Shaffer; 8. The deconstruction of offshore Sol Picciotto; 9. The changing role of lawyers in China: state bureaucrats, market brokers, and political activists Sida Liu; Part IV. Global Justice: 10. The irreconcilable goals of transitional justice Bronwyn Leebaw; 11. Pushing states to prosecute: positive complementarity, the Inter-American Court and the ICC Alexandra Huneeus; 12. When law and social science diverge: causation in the international law of incitement to commit genocide Richard A. Wilson.