{"id":459,"date":"2012-06-19T22:12:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T22:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/test\/?page_id=459"},"modified":"2019-12-20T16:16:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:16:46","slug":"ashgate-book-series-editor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/ashgate-book-series-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Globalization Law and Policy&#8211;Book Series Editor; Routledge (Taylor &#038; Francis Group)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the editor of a Book Series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Globalization-Law-and-Policy\/book-series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a>, for Routledge&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/taylorandfrancis.com\/#\">Taylor and Francis Group<\/a>). Here is the series description from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/globalizationlawandpolicy\">Ashgate website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Globalization: Law and Policy builds an integrated body of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series focus on the consequential effects of globalization, including emerging frameworks and processes for the internationalization, legal harmonization, juridification, and democratization of law among increasingly connected political, economic, religious, cultural, ethnic, and other functionally differentiated governance communities. Legal systems, their harmonization and incorporation in other governance orders, and their relationship to globalization are taking on new importance within a coordinated network of domestic legal orders, the legal orders of groups of states, and the governance frameworks of non-state actors. These legal orders engage a number of important actors, sources, principles, and tribunals &#8211; including multinational corporations as governance entities, contract and surveillance as forms of governance that substitute for traditional law, sovereign wealth funds and other new forms of state activity, hybrid supra national entities like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and international tribunals with autonomous jurisdiction, including the International Criminal Court, the World Trade Organization, and regional human rights courts. The effects have been profound, especially with respect to the role of states, and especially of the United States as its long time position in global affairs undergoes significant change. Comparative and transnational law serve as natural nexus points for vigorous and sometimes interdisciplinary approaches to the study of state and non-state law systems, along with their linkages and interactions. The series is intended as a resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and civil society actors, and includes a balance of theoretical and policy studies in single-authored volumes and collections of original essays.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SeriesBooks2019.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SeriesBooks2019-165x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SeriesBooks2019-165x300.png 165w, https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SeriesBooks2019.png 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>CLICK HERE FOR GLOBALIZATION : LAW AND POLICY SERIES PROPOSAL FORM<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/REVAshgate-Proposal-Guidelines-Globalization-Series.doc\">REVAshgate Proposal Guidelines&#8211;Globalization Series<\/a><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ashgatespace1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-463\" title=\"Ashgatespace1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Ashgatespace1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a>This is a young series with several very exciting projects in the works.\u00a0 Books published in the Series are shown below.More as they develop.\u00a0 If you are interested in submitting a manuscript, please consider Routledge Taylor &amp; Francise and this series.\u00a0 I am happy to work with you.<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-11.05.53-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1985 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-11.05.53-AM-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-11.05.53-AM-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-11.05.53-AM.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"media-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Accountability-International-Business-Operations-and-the-Law-Providing\/Enneking-Giesen-Schaap-Ryngaert-Kristen-Roorda\/p\/book\/9780815356837\">Accountability, International Business Operations and the Law<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"media-subtitle\">Providing Justice for Corporate Human Rights Violations in Global Value Chains, 1st Edition<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p class=\"author media-author\">Edited by <a title=\"search for all books by Liesbeth Enneking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Liesbeth Enneking\">Liesbeth Enneking<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Ivo Giesen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Ivo Giesen\">Ivo Giesen<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Anne-Jetske Schaap\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Anne-Jetske Schaap\">Anne-Jetske Schaap<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Cedric Ryngaert\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Cedric Ryngaert\">Cedric Ryngaert<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Francois Kristen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Francois Kristen\">Francois Kristen<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Lucas Roorda\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Lucas Roorda\">Lucas Roorda<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-pub\">Hardback \u2013 <abbr class=\"pubdate\" title=\"December 20th 2019\">2019-12-20<\/abbr><br \/>\nRoutledge<br \/>\n<a title=\"Series: Globalization: Law and Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"media-item\">\n<p><a class=\"media-img productimg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Legal-and-Rhetorical-Foundations-of-Economic-Globalization-An-Atlas-of\/Wang\/p\/book\/9780367188405\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978036718\/9780367188405.jpg\" alt=\"Legal and Rhetorical Foundations of Economic Globalization: An Atlas of Ritual Sacrifice in Late-Capitalism book cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3 class=\"media-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Legal-and-Rhetorical-Foundations-of-Economic-Globalization-An-Atlas-of\/Wang\/p\/book\/9780367188405\">Legal and Rhetorical Foundations of Economic Globalization<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"media-subtitle\">An Atlas of Ritual Sacrifice in Late-Capitalism, 1st Edition<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p class=\"author media-author\">By <a title=\"search for all books by Keren Wang\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Keren Wang\">Keren Wang<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-pub\">Hardback \u2013 <abbr class=\"pubdate\" title=\"June 19th 2019\">2019-06-19<\/abbr><br \/>\nRoutledge<br \/>\n<a title=\"Series: Globalization: Law and Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"media-item\">\n<p><a class=\"media-img productimg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Transnationalisation-and-Legal-Actors-Legitimacy-in-Question\/Kristiansen-Mitkidis-Munkholm-Neumann-Pelaudeix\/p\/book\/9781138346970\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978113834\/9781138346970.jpg\" alt=\"Transnationalisation and Legal Actors: Legitimacy in Question book cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3 class=\"media-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Transnationalisation-and-Legal-Actors-Legitimacy-in-Question\/Kristiansen-Mitkidis-Munkholm-Neumann-Pelaudeix\/p\/book\/9781138346970\">Transnationalisation and Legal Actors<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"media-subtitle\">Legitimacy in Question, 1st Edition<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p class=\"author media-author\">Edited by <a title=\"search for all books by Bettina Lemann Kristiansen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Bettina Lemann Kristiansen\">Bettina Lemann Kristiansen<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Katerina Mitkidis\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Katerina Mitkidis\">Katerina Mitkidis<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Louise Munkholm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Louise Munkholm\">Louise Munkholm<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Lauren Neumann\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Lauren Neumann\">Lauren Neumann<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by C\u00e9cile Pelaudeix\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=C\u00e9cile Pelaudeix\">C\u00e9cile Pelaudeix<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-pub\">Hardback \u2013 <abbr class=\"pubdate\" title=\"June 14th 2019\">2019-06-14<\/abbr><br \/>\nRoutledge<br \/>\n<a title=\"Series: Globalization: Law and Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layout-browse\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"tnfmedia media-grid media-show3\">\n<ul class=\"media-list\">\n<li class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"media-item\">\n<p><a class=\"media-img productimg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Hostile-Business-and-the-Sovereign-State-Privatized-Governance-State\/Strauss\/p\/book\/9781138296145\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978113829\/9781138296145.jpg\" alt=\"Hostile Business and the Sovereign State: Privatized Governance, State Security and International Law book cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3 class=\"media-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Hostile-Business-and-the-Sovereign-State-Privatized-Governance-State\/Strauss\/p\/book\/9781138296145\">Hostile Business and the Sovereign State<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"media-subtitle\">Privatized Governance, State Security and International Law, 1st Edition<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p class=\"author media-author\">By <a title=\"search for all books by Michael J. Strauss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Michael J. Strauss\">Michael J. Strauss<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-pub\">Hardback \u2013 <abbr class=\"pubdate\" title=\"December 14th 2018\">2018-12-14<\/abbr><br \/>\nRoutledge<br \/>\n<a title=\"Series: Globalization: Law and Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"media-item\">\n<p><a class=\"media-img productimg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Chinese-Constitutionalism-in-a-Global-Context\/Chengyi\/p\/book\/9781409454106\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978140945\/9781409454106.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Constitutionalism in a Global Context book cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3 class=\"media-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Chinese-Constitutionalism-in-a-Global-Context\/Chengyi\/p\/book\/9781409454106\">Chinese Constitutionalism in a Global Context<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"media-subtitle\">1st Edition<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p class=\"author media-author\">By <a title=\"search for all books by Peng Chengyi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Peng Chengyi\">Peng Chengyi<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-pub\">Hardback \u2013 <abbr class=\"pubdate\" title=\"August 20th 2018\">2018-08-20<\/abbr><br \/>\nRoutledge<br \/>\n<a title=\"Series: Globalization: Law and Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"media-item\">\n<p><a class=\"media-img productimg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Multinationals-and-the-Constitutionalization-of-the-World-Power-System\/Robe-Lyon-Caen-Vernac\/p\/book\/9781138606555\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978113860\/9781138606555.jpg\" alt=\"Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System book cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3 class=\"media-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Multinationals-and-the-Constitutionalization-of-the-World-Power-System\/Robe-Lyon-Caen-Vernac\/p\/book\/9781138606555\">Multinationals and the Constitutionalization of the World Power System<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"media-subtitle\">1st Edition<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p class=\"author media-author\">Edited by <a title=\"search for all books by Jean-Philippe Rob\u00e9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Jean-Philippe Rob\u00e9\">Jean-Philippe Rob\u00e9<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by Antoine Lyon-Caen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Antoine Lyon-Caen\">Antoine Lyon-Caen<\/a>, <a title=\"search for all books by St\u00e9phane Vernac\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=St\u00e9phane Vernac\">St\u00e9phane Vernac<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-pub\">Paperback \u2013 <abbr class=\"pubdate\" title=\"May 11th 2018\">2018-05-11<\/abbr><br \/>\nRoutledge<br \/>\n<a title=\"Series: Globalization: Law and Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"media\">\n<div class=\"media-item\">\n<p><a class=\"media-img productimg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Power-Procedure-Participation-and-Legitimacy-in-Global-Sustainability\/Buhmann\/p\/book\/9781138696082\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tandf.co.uk\/common\/jackets\/agentjpg\/978113869\/9781138696082.jpg\" alt=\"Power, Procedure, Participation and Legitimacy in Global Sustainability Norms: A Theory of Collaborative Regulation book cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-body\">\n<hgroup>\n<h3 class=\"media-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Power-Procedure-Participation-and-Legitimacy-in-Global-Sustainability\/Buhmann\/p\/book\/9781138696082\">Power, Procedure, Participation and Legitimacy in Global Sustainability Norms<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"media-subtitle\">A Theory of Collaborative Regulation, 1st Edition<\/h4>\n<\/hgroup>\n<p class=\"author media-author\">By <a title=\"search for all books by Karin Buhmann\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/products\/search?author=Karin Buhmann\">Karin Buhmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-pub\">Hardback \u2013 <abbr class=\"pubdate\" title=\"August 2nd 2017\">2017-08-02<\/abbr><br \/>\nRoutledge<br \/>\n<a title=\"Series: Globalization: Law and Policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/series\/GLOBLP\"><em>Globalization: Law and Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Ashgate\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/globalizationlawandpolicy\">Globalization: Law and Policy<\/a> series builds an integrated body of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series focus on the consequential effects of globalization, including emerging frameworks and processes for governance. The series editor is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/law.psu.edu\/faculty\/resident_faculty\/backer\">Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer<\/a>, from Pennsylvania State University, USA. He kindly answered some questions for us.\u00a0 Taylor &amp; Francis Group was kind enough to publish a short interview about the series, reproduced below.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/globalizationlawandpolicy\">An interview with Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer \u2013 series editor for Globalization: Law and\u00a0Policy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Taylor &amp; Francis Group&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashgate.com\/globalizationlawandpolicy\">Globalization: Law and Policy<\/a> series builds an integrated body of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series focus on the consequential effects of globalization, including emerging frameworks and processes for governance. The series editor is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/law.psu.edu\/faculty\/resident_faculty\/backer\">Larry Cat\u00e1 Backer<\/a>, from the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, USA. He kindly answered some questions for us.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ashgatepublishing.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/larrybacker1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ashgatepublishing.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/larrybacker1.gif?w=500\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What encouraged you to enter academia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As long as I can remember I\u2019ve wanted to understand human organization, to examine it the way an enthusiastic child examines a complex toy received as a gift from a relative with a perverse sense of humor. This sort of study permits the public satisfaction of private pleasure. The academic environment provides me an environment best suited to this pursuit, a space within which I can share my discoveries with the enthusiasm of a child who discovers of the way a complex plaything works or might be used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What made you (decide to) initiate this series?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Innovative work tends to be lost in the great rush to produce the common.\u00a0It is important not just to encourage the production of cutting edge work in an emerging area of law and policy, but to provide a space were work that might cut across disciplines might be supported. There is strength in numbers, and the elaboration of the related work of a community of scholars can strengthen their individual work and collectively provide a greater weight and influence for such efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your academic background and research interests?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started off my research by looking at the way governments use their power to manage and direct the way people think and behave.\u00a0I was curious about the different roads to those similar ends taken under a variety of different theories of governance\u2014democratic, theocratic and Marxist-Leninist\u2014in their many variations.\u00a0That led to a long-term effort to understand how different governance communities, states, corporations, religions, interest groups and others participate in and contribute to the governance of the individual.\u00a0Globalization has both exposed and given great impetus to these governance modalities in new and transformative ways. I examine the institutionalization of governance within and beyond the state. My graduate studies at Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government and Columbia University really helped prepare me for\u00a0 this sort of interdisciplinary research agenda.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/lcb911\/iWeb\/Larry%20Cata%20Backer\/CV.html\">My CV is available on my personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very briefly, where do you see your discipline going in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, nation-states, standing at the pinnacle of their power, looked to each other to create a community of states and deployed a set of common idioms for that purpose.\u00a0 In the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, having survived the worst excesses of the deployment of the power of the state system, this community of states sought to create a system for the management of the worst of their behaviors. In the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century states and their domestic legal orders will not be able to maintain their isolation from the emerging non-national governance frameworks and retain a substantial relevance; to avoid irrelevance, states and their law systems must recognize governance polycentricity and more effectively communicate with the emerging extra-legal governance frameworks of public and private governance systems and by public and private actors. It is that dynamic element of <em>inter-systemic harmonization and its challenges for the law-state<\/em> that this series is meant to explore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been the highlight of your academic career so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are three: the first was participating in the development of a School of International Affairs here at Penn State University; the second was participating in the important work of developing global norms for business and human rights; and the third was the establishment of my blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/lcbackerblog.blogspot.com\/\">Law at the End of the Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What book (not from the series but generally) has most influenced your own work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if influence is the right word, but Robert Musil\u2019s <em>Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften<\/em> (<em>The Man Without Qualities<\/em>) (1930) has had the most profound effect on how I see the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you find particularly interesting about your role as series editor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What I appreciate most about my role as series editor is the ability to encourage innovative work that explores law and governance in their systemic aspects within the current context of globalization.\u00a0I especially appreciate the possibility that this series provides to aggregate and leverage the power of new and exciting scholarship to contribute to and strongly influence the policy and governance debates taking place now not only within academic circles but among leading civil society actors, government officials and corporate managers. In order to have a voice in the great issues of governance that confront state and non-state actors today, and that are vital to the forward movement of academic research, it is necessary to create and advance communities of discourse.\u00a0 This series is meant to contribute in some way to those efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any advice for people wanting to publish in your series?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, don\u2019t be shy: self-censorship, especially in the development of ideas that may not be embraced by a majority of our academic and policy peers is no reason to avoid pursuing insights to their reasonable ends.\u00a0Second, avoid instrumentalism:\u00a0good scholarship avoids both the great strengths and weaknesses of old fashioned pamphleteering grounded in the bending of words to a pre-conceived ends, let the scholarship take you where it leads rather than lead your scholarship to a deliberate end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the last book you read?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Infinity of Lists<\/em> by Umberto Eco (2009).\u00a0The ideology and expression of the unquenchable thirst for cataloging things, people, ideas, actions and the like, and through that cataloguing to determine the order of things, provides a great window on the human condition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the editor of a Book Series, Globalization: Law and Policy, for Routledge&#8217;s (Taylor and Francis Group). Here is the series description from the Ashgate website: Globalization: Law and Policy builds an integrated body of scholarship that critically addresses key issues and theoretical debates in comparative and transnational law. Volumes in the series focus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/ashgate-book-series-editor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Globalization Law and Policy&#8211;Book Series Editor; Routledge (Taylor &#038; Francis Group)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-459","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/459\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}