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Dialectical Regulation: The Murky Middle Ground

Document Type

Article

Language

English (en)

Publication Date

2006

Publication Title

Connecticut Law Review

Abstract

The growing transnational web of interactions among regulatory agencies has provided fertile ground for international law scholarship. Scholars from the transgovernmentalism school have focused on the development of informal regulatory networks that promote policy coordination among national regulatory agencies. Transnational legal process scholars, for their part, emphasize repeated interactions among both public and private actors, resulting in the "embedding" of global norms into domestic legal and political processes. Both schools are sanguine about the possibilities of transnational dialogue among national actors, positing that the growing interactions among regulators will produce a "global community of law" in which the benefits of transnational cooperation outweigh the costs.

Keywords

International Law, Transnational Law

Publication Citation

Melissa A. Waters, Dialectical Regulation: The Murky Middle Ground, 38 Conn. L. Rev. 961 (2006)

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