尼尔·弗格森在《帝国:英国如何缔造现代世界》一书中认为“没有任何一个国家和组织比大英帝国更热衷于向全世界强行推广西方的法律、秩序和统治模式”。~①当然,如果站在21世纪的第二个十年重新来审视这句话,似乎并不那么合适,大英帝国这个角色已然被美国所替代,亦有学者认为当代的法律全球化实质上是“跨国法治的美国化”。~② Neil Ferguson, in The Empire: How the United Kingdom Creates the Modern World, argues that “no country or organization is more interested in pushing the Western world law, order and ruling patterns than the British Empire.” Of course, if we look again at this phrase in the second decade of the 21st century, it seems not so appropriate that the role of the British Empire is already replaced by the United States. Some scholars think that contemporary globalization of law is essentially “Americanization of transnational rule of law ”. ~ ②