Sources of Commons Law

List

-Henry George and Geonomics, leading to the current Earthrights movement -consult Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director Earth Rights Institute Web: <http://www.earthrights.net/>www.earthrights.net

-Ward Morehouse and the peoples tribunals in Japan and the U.N , i.e. 'people's law' as a legal commons that can emerge whereever needed to indict corporate and state crimes:

"The Permanent People's Tribunal should be part of the Commons debate. Its origins go back to Bertrand Russell and the war crimes of the 1970s and include the Algiers Declaration of the Rights of Peoples in 1976. The repository of more recent tribunals is the the Lelio Baso Foundation in Rome and the coordinator in Milan, G. Tognoni (spelling ?) Even more relevant to the "Commons Debate" is the Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights which grew out of a series of tribunals (including Bhopal) in the 1990s. The text of the charter is given in Brigit Hanna, Ward Morehouse, and Satyu Sarangi, The Bhopal Reader, 2004" - quote from ward morehouse

- trent schroyer ' Beyond Western Economics' ( Routledge 2009- chapter 2 & 4)): chapter on Illich and Polanyi that argues the sustainability of small communities in a post-secular argumentation.

- Gandhi's in India about swaraj, or self rule. see also trent schroyer, 'Beyond Western Economics' chapter 5

- work of cultural marxists - especially Jurgen Habermas whose Universal Pragmatics and discourse ethics