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"Editors, foreword and acknowledgements" [2008] ELECD 302; in van Schooten, Hanneke; Verschuuren, Jonathan (eds), "International Governance and Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008)

Book Title: International Governance and Law

Editor(s): van Schooten, Hanneke; Verschuuren, Jonathan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847207272

Section Title: Editors, foreword and acknowledgements

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Editors' foreword and
acknowledgements
The idea for this book emerged in discussions we had within the Centre for
Legislative Studies at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. For more than a
decade, this research centre has focused its attention on the relationship
between legislation and all kinds of law originating from sources other than
the legislature. The Centre's main focus is particularly on the relationship
between legislation and sources of law outside the sphere of government,
i.e., non-state law, in the light of effectiveness and legitimacy. We wondered
whether there were other research groups that researched this theme from
a similarly broad perspective. The most important characteristic of the
research by the Centre for Legislative Studies is its multidisciplinary
approach, including various areas of positive law, legal sociology, legal
theory and legal history. We came to the conclusion that a similar group did
not exist, and there was not much relevant academic literature that takes a
similarly multidisciplinary perspective, either. However, since various aca-
demics from around the world do study the same subject, we decided to
invite these researchers to come to Tilburg University to further discuss
the topic and to write a book on it together with several of the Centre's
researchers.
We are very grateful to these authors for embarking on this project. The
results of the project are important as well as topical. Many legislatures and
regulators around the world struggle with the question of what should be
done with non-state law. We ...