Delmas-Marty Publishes Ordering Pluralism Naomi Norberg '88 Translation
Mireille Delmas-Marty, chair in Comparative Legal Studies and Internationalization of Law at the Collège de France
and a member of the Global Council of the California International Law Center at King Hall (CILC) has published
Ordering Pluralism: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Transnational World, in an English translation by Naomi Norberg '88.
"Neither utopian fusion nor illusory autonomy, Ordering Pluralism is ... both an epistemological revolution and an art," states the publication announcement from Hart Publishing. "Since an immutable world order is impossible, the imaginative forces of law must be called upon to invent a flexible process of harmonization that leaves room for believing we can agree on - and protect - common values."
After graduating from King Hall in 1988, Naomi Norberg moved to Paris, where she ran a special effects and prototyping business with her husband beforel translating Mireille Delmas-Marty's Towards a Truly Common Law, which inspired her to enroll in an LL.M program in comparative criminal law at the University of Paris. She went on to earn a Ph.D. there in 2008, receiving highest honors for her dissertation on The Internationalization of American Law: the Alien Tort Claims Act, Post-2001 Antiterrorism Measures and Civic Actors--for which much of the initial research was done as a visiting scholar at King Hall. After a year of adjunct teaching in France, she is happy to have gone back to translating. Currently finishing a book on Chinese tradition, law and democracy, her next project is a book on harmonizing criminal law, both of which should be out next year.
