From Transnational Relations to Transnational Laws

Anne Hellum is a Professor of Law in the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo, and co-editor of several books including Human Rights: Plural Legalities and Gendered Realities (Weaver Press, 2007). Shaheen Sardar Ali is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, and author of Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man? (Kluwer, 2000). Anne Griffiths is a Professor in the School of Law at Edinburgh University and co-editor of books including Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society (Ashgate, 2009).

Preface; Transnational Law in the Making, Anne Hellum, Shaheen Sardar Ali, Anne Griffiths; Part I Family Relations, Transnational, National and Local Sites of Contestation; Chapter 1 Syrian Transnational Families and Family Law, Annika Rabo; Chapter 2 Cyber-Stork Children and the NorwegianThe Global Equality Standard meets Norwegian Sameness, Anne Hellum; Chapter 4 Taking What Law Where and to Whom? Legal Literacy as Transcultural ‘Law-Making’ in Oslo, Anne Hellum, Farhat Taj; Part II Transnational Religious Rule: Muslims in the European Diaspora; Chapter 5 Behind the Cyberspace Veil: Online Fatawa on Women’s Family Rights, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Chapter 6 Islamic Jurisprudence and Transnational Flows: Exploring the European Council for Fatwa and Research, Lena Larsen; Chapter 7 Cultural Translations and Legal Conflict: Muslim Women and the Shari’a Councils in Britain, Samia Bano; Part III Transnational Modes of Governance: Family, Market and Media; Chapter 8 Local Responses to National and Transnational Law: A View from the Scottish Children’s Hearings System, Anne Griffiths, Randy F. Kandel; Chapter 9 Business Lawyers in the Age of Globalization – A Comparison of the Situation in Norway and Germany, Knut Papendorf; Chapter 10 Regulating Cyberspace: Modes of Production, Modes of Regulation and Modes of Resistance, Abdul Paliwala; Chapter 11 Post September 11 Legal Regulations of the Hawala System: The Predicament of Somalis in Norway, Sarvendra Tharmalingam, Mohamed Husein Gaas, Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Part IV Transnational Media and Freedom of Expression: Human Rights Paradoxes; Chapter 12 Differing Standards of Free Expression: Clashes of Laws during the Cartoon Controversy?, Elisabeth Eide; Chapter 13 The Globalization of the Insult: Freedom of Expression meets Cosmopolitan Thinking, Thomas Hylland Eriksen;