ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the transnational law is understood as a methodological framework, allowing for analysis of local and transnational actors and norms, connected through ‘networks’ and ‘migrating standards’, however, not as entirely detached from national political and legal orders, but as emerging out of and reaching beyond them. It aims to understand an approach to analyse the frustration with possible lack of accountability, access to justice and democratic legitimacy of such regulatory frameworks. The chapter draws on contributions from H. Patrick Glenn on the ‘margin-of-appreciation-doctrine’ and from Kaarlo Tuori on perspectivism with a focus on interlegality instead of a radical pluralism. It explores the internal legal system of the United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church has grown in American law and religion structures with a constitutional wall of separation between church and state; that is also what is expected around the world.
