Legal Positivism in a Global and Transnational Age

Chapter 1: Introduction: Legal Positivism in a Global and Transnational Age.- Part I: Legal Positivism, the State, and International Legal Theory.- Chapter 2: About the Impossibility of Absolute State Sovereignty. The Modern Era and the Early Legal Positivist Claim.- Chapter 3: Taking Legal Positivism beyond the State: Finding Secondary Rules?.- Chapter 4: New International Legal Positivism: Formalism by Another Name?.- Part II: Legal Positivism and Social Practices.- Chapter 5: Legal Positivism as Tekhn : Postnational Normative Ontology and Positivist Effectual Temporality.- Chapter 6: Barking Up the Wrong Tree? Systems Theory and the 'Social Positivisation' of Human Rights.- Chapter 7: Before and After Legal Positivity: Peremptory Norms in Global and Transnational Social Practice.- Part III: Beyond Legal Positivism?.- Chapter 8: Positivism and the Peace/power Dialectic: Feminist Reflections in a Transnational Age.- Chapter 9: Beyond Legal Positivism in Transnational Law.- Chapter 10: How Post-Positivism Sheds Light on Treaty Interpretation: Celebrating the VCLT Rule of Interpretation.- Chapter 11: Responsibility of Corporations in International Law: Positivism and Transnationalism Revisited.