The redress of law: globalisation, constitutionalism and market capture

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Notes

1 See, Nancy Fraser, ‘Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy’ in Craig J Calhoun (ed), Habermas and the Public Sphere (MIT Press 1992).

2 Simone Weil, ‘On Human Personality’, in D. McLellan (ed.), Simone Weil: Utopian Pessimist (Macmillan 1989) 286.

3 The quote is taken from Karl Marx, letter to Edward S. Beesly, 1869.

4 See, Duncan Kennedy, ‘The Critique of Rights in Critical Legal Studies’ in Wendy Brown and Janet Halley (eds), Left Legalism/Left Critique (Duke University Press 2002).

5 See, Robert Cover, ‘The Supreme Court, 1982 Term – Foreword: Nomos and Narrative’ (1983) 97 Harvard Law Review 4.

6 In this direction, see for example, Amy Kapczynski, ‘The Law of Informational Capitalism’ (2020) 129 The Yale Law Journal 1460, on the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court treating trade secrets as property subject to the Fifth Amendment.

7 For example, looking into the promise of an alternative international order as was once encapsulated in the New International Economic Order proposals.

8 See, Susan Marks, ‘False Contingency’ (2009) 62(1) Current Legal Problems 1.

9 ‘There is no such thing as capitalism’ – only institutional arrangements that improve or worsen inequality. See, S Moyn, ‘Thomas Piketty andthe Future of Legal Scholarship’ (2014) 128 Harvard Law Review 49, 54–55.

10 Ellen M Wood, Democracy Against Capitalism (Verso 2016) 27. Similarly, in E.P. Thompson’s historical analysis, law was not simply ‘superstructural’ but rather ‘deeply imbricated within the very basis of production relations, which would have been inoperable without this law’, EP Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (Penguin 1975) 261.

11 John O’Neill, The Market: Ethics, Knowledge, and Politics (Routledge 1998) 7.

12 Andreas Fischer-Lescano, ‘Critical Systems Theory’ (2012) 38(1) Philosophy & Social Criticism 3.

13 See, Gunther Teubner, Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization (Oxford University Press 2012).

14 See, also the earlier agenda of reflexive law, Gunther Teubner, ‘Substantive and Reflexive Elements in Modern Law’ (1983) 17(2) Law & Society Review 239.

15 Emilios Christodoulidis, ‘On the Politics of Societal Constitutionalism’ (2013) 20 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 629.

16 Gunther Teubner, ‘Societal Constitutionalism and the Politics of the Common’ (2010) 21 Finnish Yearbook of International Law 111.

17 A relevant discussion emerges in the context of Poul Kjaer, ‘What is Transformative Law?’ (2022) 1(4) European Law Open 760, where law’s form-giving function (i.e., institutionalizing autonomous social processes) becomes a key for its transformative potential. There, the expansion of public rationalities comes through a self-conscious expansion of public law that ‘publicizes’ the private, rather than through societal pressures and the facilitation of self-regulation. For a discussion and critique, see Ioannis Kampourakis, ‘Legal Theory in Search of Social Transformation’ (2022) 1(4) European Law Open 808.