summarily be characterized as law that is not made or not enforced by national
states or that is not meant for the regulation of behavior of legal subjects within
nation states or the mutual relations between nation states. This is a negative
characterization: transnational law is law that does not belong to the Westphalian
duo. The increasing importance of this branch of law marks an important develop-
ment in the long history of the law, which gives rise to new questions about the
nature of the law.
Recommended Literature
Merryman JH (2007) The civil law tradition, 3rd revised edn. Stanford University Press, Redwood
City
Stein P (1999) Roman law in European History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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