From Empire to Globalization…and Back? A Post-Colonial View of Transjudicialism

From Empire to Globalization: The New Zealand Experience presents a picture of a government at a fascinating historical moment—achieving full status as an independent sovereign, ridding itself of the last vestiges of colonialism, just as the forces of globalization are changing in such dramatic ways what sovereignty means. Looking at this moment, Professor McLean analyzes not globalization as an abstract force, but rather the deep institutional effects that globalization has had on one nation’s internal sovereignty. Her examination of such developments as the expanded role of New Zealand’s judiciary in interpreting human rights instruments, and the means by which international economic instruments are incorporated into national legislation, reveals the impact of globalization on New Zealand’s system of parliamentary sovereignty as well as the restraints that it imposes on the exercise of executive and legislative autonomy in the country. Throughout, her paper exposes ways in which certain elements of globalization echo elements of the country’s earlier colonialism.Movie Rings (2017)