Table of contents
Part I: 1. Jurisprudence, globalisation and the discipline of law: the need for a new general jurisprudence;
2. Analytical jurisprudence in a global context;
3. Mapping law: families, civilisations, cultures, and traditions;
4. Constructing conceptions of law: beyond Hart, Tamanaha and Llewellyn;
5. Normative jurisprudence, utilitarianism, and theories of justice;
6. Human rights as moral, political and legal rights;
7. Meeting the challenges to human rights as moral rights: Griffin, Tasioulas and Sen;
8. Empirical dimensions of law and justice;
Part II: 9. Diffusion of law: a global perspective;
10. Surface law;
11. Is law important? Law and the Millennium Development Goals;
12. The significance of non-state law;
13. Human rights: Southern voices;
14. Conclusion