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social science subjects > law > legal systems
social science subjects > law > jurisprudence > legal systems
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legal systems  

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  • Legal systems in the early 21st century can only be understood in the context of globalization. Globalization fundamentally affects local and national legal systems through three processes: economic and political globalization and resulting synchronic challenges to nation-states across the globe; the emergence of global-level cognitive and normative scripts and their effects at the level of nation-states; and the establishment of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations at the global level. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; Legal Systems]

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