Transformation of Legal System across the Globalized World

Abstract

Globalization is the act of transforming the current international system within all countries across the globe. There have been two first changes that have come into rising at the detriment of the law. The first one being that the rules that were put in place by the transnational corporations and the intergovernmental organizations (IGO) have taken their course to be prominent. The second change is specialized regimes of public international law have gone into regions that were monopolized by the state in the previous years. The sectors include environmental law, human rights, and trade laws. The Westphalian Constitution has played a great role in the transformation of the international legislation in the globalized world. This paper gives an analysis of the transition of the international laws from its beginning to date by combining the societal theory and the conceptualization of international political economy. The international laws have changed since the world started to become globalized. The difference between the state and international laws is diminishing with time as both are becoming one at the same time leaving the world in a dilemma on which are the international laws and which are state laws. The civil law and common law have become the new pattern from the colonization pattern that formed the former international legal system. The world has been made a better place through the transformation of the international legal system that has integrated various nations with different political economy statuses.

Keywords: International law, Legal system, Globalization, Economy, Governance.