This book arose from our puzzlement at the paradoxical state of sociolegal knowledge on globalization. The beginning of the new millennium has witnessed a groundswell of proposals for the transformation or replacement of the national and international legal institutions underpinning hegemonic, neoliberal globalization. Put forth by variegated counter-hegemonic movements and organizations and articulated through transnational networks, these proposals challenge our sociological and legal imagination and belie the fatalistic ideology that "there is no alternative" to neoliberal institutions.