@article {67926,
	title = {Legal Transnationalism: The Relationship between Transnational Social Movement Building and International Law},
	journal = {Law \& Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation},
	year = {2011},
	note = {Download PDF},
	month = {Apr 1, 2011},
	publisher = {Law \& Social Inquiry: Journal of the American Bar Foundation},
	abstract = {This 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{\textemdash}defined as processes
by which international laws and legal mechanisms facilitate social movement
building at the transnational level{\textemdash}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).},
	url = {http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/index.html},
	author = {Kay, Tamara}
}
