and "This book opens multiple research agendas in relation to transnational law, and its main contribution is in the ways authors situate their purposes in relation to the human activity that constitutes transnational law-therefore, inevitably, resulting overall in a productive intersection of disciplines. The book responds to events, but much remains uncertain, and in any case, in rapidly changing circumstances, relevance requires imaginative work. In these chapters, we find persistent patterns of states asserting their own position within global regulatory processes in their association of state sovereignty with national culture, as if this were its natural expression. Transnationalism can operate as a sphere above the state, or as one that lies between states, but this volume also reveals how it works through states when transnational law connects claims of national culture with demands for specific outcomes. Exploring transnational law's landscapes reveals how the terrain is designed and worked by those who inhabit it or travel across it-in the process, reacting to its constraints and changing its form and " -