Paul Schiff Berman

George Washington University - Law School

Walter S. Cox Professor of Law

2000 H Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20052

United States

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Global Legal Pluralism

Southern California Review, Vol. 80, p. 1155, 2007, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 08-001
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 11 May 2007
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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law, globalization, pluralism, international

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From International Law to Law and Globalization

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 18 Apr 2005
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Law,International, Globalization

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The Globalization of Jurisdiction

The Globalization of Jurisdiction, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 151, pp. 311-529, December 2002
Number of pages: 219 Posted: 10 Apr 2002
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Cyberspace, Globalization, Jurisdiction, Culture

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The New Legal Pluralism

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The New Legal Pluralism

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 5, pp. 225-242, 2009
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Nov 2009
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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legal, pluralism, globalization

The New Legal Pluralism

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A Pluralist Approach to International Law

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 32, p. 301, 2007, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 07-001
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Mar 2007
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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international Law, globalization, legal pluralism

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Review Essay: 'Seeing Beyond the Limits of International Law,' Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric a. Posner, 'the Limits of International Law'

Texas Law Review, Vol. 84, pp. 1265-1306, 2006, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 07-006
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Sep 2005
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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international law, rational choice theory, Goldsmith, Posner

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Cyberspace and the State Action Debate: The Cultural Value of Applying Constitutional Norms to 'Private' Regulation

University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 4, May 2000
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Jul 2000
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Conflict of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests in a Global Era

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 May 2005
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Internet, conflicts, law, globalization

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Rats, Pigs, and Statues on Trial: The Creation of Cultural Narratives in the Prosecution of Animals and Inanimate Objects

New York University Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 288, 1994
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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legal history, trials, law and society

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Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law Beyond Borders (Introduction)

Paul Schiff Berman, GLOBAL LEGAL PLURALISM: A JURISPRUDENCE OF LAW BEYOND BORDERS, p. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2012, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-12, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2012-12
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Mar 2012
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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legal systems, international law, international regimes, local, state, jurisdiction, globalization, pluralism, legal pluralism, nonstate actors, normative, legal norms, extraterritorial, cross-border law, hybrid law, hybridity, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan pluralism, jurisgenerative, conflict of laws

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Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace

LAW AND SOCIETY APPROACHES TO CYBERSPACE, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 07-009
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 May 2007 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2007
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Cyberspace, internet, law, society

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The Evolution of Global Legal Pluralism

The Evolution of Global Legal Pluralism, in Authority in Transnational Legal Theory: Theorising across Disciplines 151 (Roger Cotterrell & Maksymilian Del Mar eds., 2016), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2017-42, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-42
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Jul 2017
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Law, Globalization, Pluralism, International

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The Enduring Connections Between Law and Culture: Reviewing Lawrence Rosen, Law as Culture, and Oscar Chase, Law, Culture, and Ritual

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 57, No. 101, 2009
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 May 2009 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2009
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Law, Culture, Pluralism, Comparative Law

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Conflicts of Law and the Abortion War between the States

172 U. PA. L. REV. 399 (2024)., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-12, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-12
Number of pages: 121 Posted: 01 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2024
Paul Schiff Berman, Roey Goldstein and Sophie Leff
George Washington University - Law School, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
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Federalism and International Law Through the Lens of Legal Pluralism

Missouri Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 1151, 2008
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 May 2009
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Legal Pluralism, Medellin, Vienna Convention, International Law, Federalism

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Conflict of Laws, Globalization, and Cosmopolitan Pluralism

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 51, p. 1105, 2005
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 May 2009 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2009
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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conflict of laws, international law, jurisdiction, globalization

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Towards a Jurisprudence of Hybridity

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Towards a Jurisprudence of Hybridity

Utah Law Review, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Sep 2010
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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legal pluralism, nonstate governance

Towards a Jurisprudence of Hybridity

Utah Law Review, No. 1, p. 11, 2010
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Dec 2010
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Hybridity, Jurisprudence, Norms

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An Observation and a Strange But True 'Tale': What Might the Historical Trials of Animals Tell Us About the Transformative Potential of Law in American Culture?

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Mar 2001
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment: Surveying the Benefits of a Cultural Analysis of Law, Reviewing Austin Sarat, 'When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition'

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 102, May 2002
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 08 Jan 2003
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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From Legal Pluralism to Global Legal Pluralism

Law, Society and Community Socio-Legal Essays in Honour of Roger Cotterrell, Richard Nobles & David Schiff, ed., Ashgate, 2014 , GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-20, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-20
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 May 2015
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Telling a Less Suspicious Story: Notes Toward a Non-Skeptical Approach to Legal/Cultural Analysis

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Jul 2001
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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An Anthropological Approach to Modern Forfeiture Law: The Symbolic Function of Legal Actions Against Objects

Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1999
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Apr 1999 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2009
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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forfeiture, legal history, deodand, Bennis, Ursery

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Global Legal Pluralism as a Normative Project

8 UC Irvine L. Rev. 149 (2018)., GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2018-76, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-76
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Dec 2018
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Global Legal Pluralism, Globalization and Law, Transnational Law

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Understanding Global Legal Pluralism: From Local to Global, From Descriptive to Normative

"Understanding Global Pluralism: From Local to Global, From Descriptive to Normative," in The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (Paul Schiff Berman ed., 2020). , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-74, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-74
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Oct 2020
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Global legal pluralism, transnationalism, global constitutionalism, relative authority, jurisdiction

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Can Global Legal Pluralism Be Both 'Global' and 'Pluralist'?

29 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 381 (2019), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2019-25, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-25
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 May 2019
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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global legal pluralism, globalization, transnational legal theory

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Legal Jurisdiction and the Deterritorialization of Data

Paul Schiff Berman, Legal Jurisdiction and the Deterritorialization of Data, 71 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 11 (2018), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2018-05, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-05
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Mar 2018
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Interaction of Legal Systems

The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Scott Dodson, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-19, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-19
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 15 May 2015
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Jurisgenerative Constitutionalism: Procedural Principles for Managing Global Legal Pluralism

20 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 1 (2013), GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-133, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 3013-1333
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2014
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Dialectical Regulation, Territoriality, and Pluralism

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 38, p. 929, 2006
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 May 2009 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2009
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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territoriality, sovereignty, international law, pluralism, globalization

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The Inevitable Legal Pluralism within Universal Harmonization Regimes: The Case of the CISG

Unif. L. Rev., 2016, 1-18 , GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-7, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-7
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Mar 2016
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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How Legal Pluralism Is and Is Not Distinct from Liberalism: A Response to Dennis Patterson and Alexis Galán

11 International Journal of Constitutional Law 801-808 (2013) , GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-134, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-134
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Nov 2013
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Democracy and Demography

24 J. Const. L. 766, 2022, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 36, 2022, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 36, 2022
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2024
Paul Schiff Berman, Neal Mehrotra and Kathryn Sadasivan
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The Future of Jurisdiction

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-21, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2024-21, Washington University Law Review, Vol. 102, 2025, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Mar 2024
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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personal jurisdiction; civil procedure; dormant commerce clause; specific jurisdiction

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Conflicts of Law and Transnational Data Flows

Conflicts of Law and Transnational Data Flows, in The Many Lives of Transnational Law: Critical Engagements with Jessup’s Bold Proposal (Peer Zumbansen ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020)., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-15, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-15
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Mar 2023
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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Conflicts of Law, private international law, legal pluralism, deterritorialization, transnational law, internet law, jurisdiction, choice of law, judgment recognition

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Academic Brands and Online Education

Academic Brands and Online Education, in Academic Brands: Distinction in Higher Education (Mario Biagioli & Madhavi Sunder eds., Cambridge University Press, 2022)., GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2023-16, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2023-16
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Mar 2023
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George Washington University - Law School
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Judges as Cosmopolitan Transnational Actors

Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Oct 2005
Paul Schiff Berman
George Washington University - Law School
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International law, constitutional law, domestic law