Includes bibliographical references and index.

Syrian transnational families and family law / Annika Rabo -- Cyber-stork children and the Norwegian Biotechnology Act : regulating procreative practice : law and its effects / Marit Melhuus -- The global equality standard meets Norwegian sameness / Anne Hellum -- Taking what law where and to whom? : legal literacy as transcultural "law-making" in Oslo / Anne Hellum and Farhat Taj -- Behind the cyberspace veil : online Fatawa on women's family rights / Shaheen Sardar Ali -- Islamic jurisprudence and transnational flows : exploring the European Council for Fatwa and Research / Lena Larsen -- Cultural translations and legal conflict : Muslim women and the Shari'a Councils in Britain / Samia Bano -- Local responses to national and transnational law : a view from the Scottish children's hearings system / Anne Griffiths and Randy F. Kandel -- Business lawyers in the age of globalization : a comparison of the situation in Norway and Germany / Knut Papendorf -- Regulating cyberspace : modes of production, modes of regulation and modes of resistance / Abdul Paliwala -- Post September 11 legal regulations of the Hawala system : the predicament of Somalis in Norway / Sarvendra Tharmalingam and Mohamed Husein Gaas with Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Differing standards of free expression : clashes of laws during the cartoon controversy? / Elisabeth Eide -- The globalization of the insult : freedom of expression meets cosmopolitan thinking / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.