Abstract
This article asks whether the concept of legal globalisation is still a useful key for grasping the legal functioning of the world. Legal globalisation is understood here not
as the mere internationalisation of law but as a strong, multi-directional interconnection between legal systems. Its effects run deep: the erosion of the normative primacy of states, the rise of non-state actors (multinational firms, NGOs, and the digital giants), a convergence around shared principles, and the reshaping of the relationships between legal orders. The stakes are as broad as they are varied, spanning sovereignty, economic regulation, the protection of fundamental rights, and transnational governance. Yet the balance that once existed is now being disrupted by financial crises, pandemics, war, populism, and the growth of artificial intelligence. Beneath these disruptions, the interconnection of the world endures, so that the concept of legal globalisation might still remain valid.
