Lyana Francot-Timmermans and Ubaldus de Vries (University of Utrecht – Faculty of Law and University of Utrecht – Faculty of Law) have posted Multiple Modernities and Law (Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 1-3, April 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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Contemporary social developments require, now maybe more than ever, a critical perspective on law and legal scholarship. These developments become manifest in phenomena such as the financial and economic crisis, the ongoing humanitarian wars, civil unrests, ecological disasters caused by man, increasing intolerance towards ‘others’ and the perceived threat that they pose. These developments and phenomena can be captured in the notions of enforced individualisation and multidimensional globalisation as formulated by Ulrich Beck.