Resolving Multicultural Legal Cases: A Bottom Up Perspective on the Internationalization of Law

Abstract

Why are jurists and especially jurists in the international and transnational field of law, interested in internationalization, and what do they mean by it? When a word ends with “–ization” it is clear that we are talking about a process. To speak of “internationalization” of law implies that some new type of law is becoming more important. Does that mean that “international” law is becoming more important to the detriment of “domestic” law? Or is it the nature of domestic law itself that is changing? One view might be that the scope of law is simply expanding, through the juridification of social norms that were previously outside the legal realm.