Legal Transnationalism: The Relationship between Transnational Social Movement Building and International Law - Kay - 2011 - Law & Social Inquiry - 0 views
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Bill Brydon on 19 May 11This article examines the compelling enigma of how the introduction of a new international law, the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC), helped stimulate labor cooperation and collaboration in the 1990s. It offers a theory of legal transnationalism-defined as processes by which international laws and legal mechanisms facilitate social movement building at the transnational level-that explains how nascent international legal institutions and mechanisms can help develop collective interests, build social movements, and, ultimately, stimulate cross-border collaboration and cooperation. It identifies three primary dimensions of legal transnationalism that explain how international laws stimulate and constrain movement building through: (1) formation of collective identity and interests (constitutive effects), (2) facilitation of collective action (mobilization effects), and (3) adjudication and enforcement (redress effects).