Role of Law in Transnational Developments of Liberal Democracy

法律在自由民主跨国发展中的作用

• 批准号: 9213156
• 负责人: Terence Halliday
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: American Bar Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-01 至 1996-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9213156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Role; Law; Transnational; Developments; Liberal

Global changes, such as the internationalization of business, have a major impact on the organization of the legal profession. At the same time, the legal profession, like other professions that transcend national boundaries, influences transnational movements, including the trend towards open markets and democratic governance. This conference grant brings together an international team of sociologists and historians to study the historical engagement of the legal profession in transnational movements related to liberal democratic governance. Specifically, the research team, drawn from North America and Europe, devise a collaborative research strategy to investigate the intersections between an evolving legal profession and the irregular expansion of democratic governance, and complete a series of papers addressing a common set of questions related to these intersections. The study of the engagement of the legal profession in social and political movements has largely been confined to local and national settings. This team project will add a transnational dynamic by examining historical instances of the profession's involvement with the struggle between universalizing and localizing political movements associated with liberal democratic governance. These studies provide the basis for devising a model to investigate the role of legal professions in contemporary political transformations, especially those underway in Eastern Europe, South America, and Africa. Therefore, the project provides a new historical context for studying the political engagement of the legal profession, and a model for investigating the profession's engagment in a new wave of political transformations underway that have both transnational and local roots.

全球性的变化，如业务国际化，对法律专业的组织产生了重大影响。与此同时，法律专业与其他超越国界的职业一样，影响着跨国流动，包括开放市场和民主治理的趋势。这一会议赠款汇集了一个由社会学家和历史学家组成的国际团队，以研究法律专业在与自由民主治理有关的跨国运动中的历史参与。具体地说，来自北美和欧洲的研究小组制定了一项合作研究战略，以调查不断发展的法律职业与民主治理的非常规扩展之间的交叉，并完成了一系列论文，解决与这些交叉相关的一系列常见问题。对法律专业人员参与社会和政治运动的研究在很大程度上局限于地方和国家环境。这个团队项目将通过审查该专业参与与自由民主治理相关的普遍性和地方化政治运动之间的斗争的历史实例，增加跨国动力。这些研究为设计一个模型来调查法律职业在当代政治变革中的作用提供了基础，特别是在东欧、南美和非洲正在进行的政治变革中。因此，该项目为研究法律职业的政治参与提供了一个新的历史背景，并为研究该职业参与跨国和本地根源的新一轮政治变革提供了一个模式。