Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Decided in June, 2006, the Lipietz case marks the unofficial entry into the French legal system of a tort action for complicity in crimes against humanity. It both departs from prior, established French law and reflects numerous mechanisms by which national law is transnationalizing. The case illustrates visible, invisible, substantive and methodological changes that globalization is producing as law's transnationalization changes national law. It also suggests some of the difficulties national legal systems face as their transnationalization produces legal change at a rate that outpaces the national capacity for efficient adaptation. The challenges illustrated by Lipietz, characteristic of globalization, include identifying the presence and effects of legal transnationalization, as well as developing needed adaptations without undermining fundamental national legal values.
Recommended Citation
Vivian G. Curran,
Globalization, Legal Transnationalization and Crimes Against Humanity: The Lipietz Case,
56
American Journal of Comparative Law
363
(2008).
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https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/fac_articles/52
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