{"id":1684,"date":"2005-07-01T09:01:31","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/site\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2011-03-20T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T13:24:07","slug":"issue_46-2_wai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2005\/07\/issue_46-2_wai\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Private Law and Private Ordering in a Contested Global Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This  Article explores a social vision of global public order taken from  transnational private law. It recasts the potential role of private law  in the crossborder economic context as centrally concerned with private  action as both the object and vehicle of substantive and procedural  governance. Viewed in this way, private law is a venue for the  contestation and regulation of private action by private action in the  contemporary global system. With its distinctive strengths and  weaknesses, transnational private law is viewed as one alternative among  many regimes of global order and is understood to perform a  social\u2014indeed, \u201cpublic\u201d\u2014function in the embedding of private behavior  and relationships within a broader social order.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This Article  identifies the function of transnational private law as not simply  facilitation of transactions, but also compensation for harms and social  regulation of transnational conduct. Further, it argues that  transnational private law can serve an ideational function in generating  communicative interventions into the sometimes normatively closed  national and functional systems of contemporary society. In serving  these regulatory and ideational functions, transnational private law  offers a different vision of global public order in which the task for  state law is not command and control to eliminate conflict either within  or across systems, but rather governance within and between social  systems, including through allowing and sometimes facilitating conflict  and contestation. It is with this distinctive vision that this Article  begins.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Article explores a social vision of global public order taken from transnational private law. 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