Transnational legal ordering of criminal justice july 2020 cambridge studies in law and society series page edited by gregory shaffer university of california irvine ely aaronson university of haifa israel publisher cambridge university press pp iv iv. Transnational legal orders offers a pathbreaking empirically grounded theory that reframes the study of law and society it presents an original approach to the emergence of legal orders beyond nation states and shows how they originate where they compete and cooperate and how they settle on institutions that legally order fundamental economic and social behaviors that transcend national borders. Transnational legal ordering of criminal justice july 2020. By presenting and elaborating a new concept transnational legal orders halliday and shaffer present an original approach to legal orders that affect fundamental economic and social behaviors the contributors generate arrays of hypotheses about how transnational legal orders rise and fall where they compete and cooperate and how they settle and unsettle. By presenting and elaborating a new concept transnational legal orders halliday and shaffer present an original approach to legal orders that affect fundamental economic and social behaviors the contributors generate arrays of hypotheses about how transnational legal orders rise and fall where they compete and cooperate and how they settle and unsettle