Landscapes of Law shows that assertions of national culture are not always a retreat from globalism but a way of managing the contested zone between borderless capital and bordered states. A roster of international, interdisciplinary contributors offer innovative, ethnographic analyses of the ways culture works through transnational law.

Between Possibility and Peril explains how the highest courts in three young democracies—Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa—used international law to protect human rights while building their own institutional legitimacy, carefully balancing the demands of advocates, politicians, and international law itself.

Frontiers of Gender Equality introduces new and different discourses about the wrongs of gender discrimination and explains the multiple dimensions of gender equality. The book provides retrospective views of the struggles to eliminate gender discrimination in national and international contexts and suggests areas of future research.

In Defensive Relativism, Frederick Cowell argues that defensive relativism is a variety of tactical argument used by states to justify ignoring international human rights law and that it is a reflection of unresolved tensions about the nature of what it means for rights to be universal.