Seeking Global Justice: Bah�'� Visions for Legal Reform

The global legal order today exists in a state of turmoil. It has proven incapable ofeffectively addressing the social problems ailing humanity and securing justice foreveryone. This disruption afflicts both national legal systems and the internationallegal order as a whole.According to the Bahá'í teachings, the legal order of the world can onlybe rescued if it is transformed to reflect divinely-revealed principles, particularlythose teachings of global unity and oneness brought by the Revelation ofBahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), the Prophet and Founder of the Bahá'í Faith.This book investigates how that transformation can be brought about in variousdomains of law by reviewing the key features and history of the current globallegal order and the many existing deficiencies of that order, weighing currentdebates on how to address them, and determining the potential for implementingreforms based on Bahá'í principles.