Preface Michael McCann; Introduction Heinz Klug and Sally Engle Merry; Part I. The Globalization of Law: 1. African constitutionalism from the bottom-up Martin Chanock; 2. Human rights monitoring, state compliance, and the problem of information Sally Engle Merry; 3. Intellectual property and the creation of global rules Susan K. Sell; Part II. The Global Transfer of Norms: 4. Colonizing the clinic: the adventures of law in HIV treatment and research Carol A. Heimer and Jaimie Morse; 5. The politics of Islamic law and human rights: Sudan's rival legal systems Mark Fathi Massoud; 6. Women seeking justice at the intersection between vernacular and state laws and courts in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Sindiso Mnisi Weeks; Part III. Global Institutions and the Changing Roles of Judges and Lawyers: 7. New legal realism and international law Gregory Shaffer; 8. The deconstruction of offshore Sol Picciotto; 9. The changing role of lawyers in China: state bureaucrats, market brokers, and political activists Sida Liu; Part IV. Global Justice: 10. The irreconcilable goals of transitional justice Bronwyn Leebaw; 11. Pushing states to prosecute: positive complementarity, the Inter-American Court and the ICC Alexandra Huneeus; 12. When law and social science diverge: causation in the international law of incitement to commit genocide Richard A. Wilson.