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Law can no longer be viewed through a purely national lens. Transnational legal ordering affects the boundary of the state and the market, the allocation of power among national institutions, the role of professions and their expertise, and associational patterns that provide new normative frames. This book breaks new ground for understanding the impacts of transnational legal ordering within nation-states in today's globalized world. The book addresses the different dimensions of state change at stake and the factors that determine these impacts. It brings together leading scholars from sociology and law who study the effects of transnational legal ordering within different countries. Their case studies illustrate how transnational legal ordering interacts with national law and institutions in different regulatory areas, and cover anti-money laundering, bankruptcy, competition, education, intellectual property, health, and municipal water law and policy in different countries. The book explains the extent and limits of transnational legal ordering in today's world. Table of Contents 1. Transnational legal ordering and state change 2. The dimensions and determinants of state change 3. Similar in their differences: transnational legal processes addressing money laundering in Brazil and Argentina 4. Architects of the state: international organizations and the reconstruction of states in East Asia 5. Neoliberalism, transnational education norms, and education spending in the developing world, 1983–2004 6. Access to medicines and the transformation of the South African state 7. The limits of transnational transformations of the state: comparative regulatory regimes in water services delivery 8. Conclusion: the study of transnational legal ordering