Law and Disciplinarity ─ Thinking Beyond Borders

In the twenty-first century, traditional legal borders – both geographic and intellectual – have been increasingly contested. Many observers have questioned whether the long-held conceptions of sovereign state boundaries remain salient in a world of technology-accelerated transnational flows of people, capital, and information. Meanwhile, scholars across the social sciences and humanities have begun crossing disciplinary borders in unprecedented ways, co-opting new methodologies and engaging in meaningful and sustained dialogue about the meaning of law in its changing global context. These emerging movements prompt important questions: what are the nature and implications of shifting legal borders? What does the future hold for them? What role do new technologies play in this evolving story? Law and Disciplinarity: Thinking beyond Borders sets forth to answer these questions by way of distinguished scholars drawn from across a wide range of disciplines, including law, political science, international relations, and communications.

Robert J. Beck is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He is the author of The Grenada Invasion: Politics, Law, and Foreign Policy Decisionmaking, co-author of International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the U.N. Charter Paradigm, and co-editor of the International Law volume of the International Studies Association's Compendium project.