Transnational companies and juridical regulation: from state logics to non-state juridical orders

Abstract

This article aims to analyze possibilities of regulating the conduct of transnational companies from a hypercomplex and polycontextural scenario, characterized by the multiplicity of ways of communication, of building norms and of visions/ interpretations of the world. It seeks to answer: under what conditions it can be said that these companies are regulable by juridical systems from several different origins? As a hypothesis, it is noticed that their conducts can have a juridical regulation not only in state or international orders, but also from non-state juridical orders, related to a Law that emerges in society, which is not originated by State action.

Keywords

• International law
• Transnational corporations
• Self-Regulation
• Policontexturality
• Legal Pluralism