Richard Joyce is based in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, Australia

Competing Sovereignties develops an account of sovereignty that comes to terms with the complex relationship between international, national and local claims to determine the content of law.

Introduction: The crisis of modern sovereignty; PART 1: POSITION; Chapter 1: Modern sovereignty and the nation state: a failure of grounds; Chapter 2:Autopositioning: the groundless ground of modern sovereignty; PART 2: RELATION; Chapter 3: The constitutive function of relation; Chapter 4: The relation of sovereigns at the national and international levels: India and the WTO; Chapter 5: The relation of sovereigns at the international, national and local levels; Conclusion