{"title":"Introduction to The International Rule of Law","authors":"D. Wohlwend","doi":"10.4337/9781789907421.00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907421.00006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114291701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ensuring Access to Information: International Law’s Contribution to Global Justice","authors":"E. Benvenisti","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the role of international law in promoting indirectly global (and domestic) distributive justice. The focus on institutions and processes at the global level is grounded on the assumption that questions about the just allocation and reallocation of resources are ultimately resolved through processes of public deliberation (including through the involvement of courts). The author argues that the key to approaching a more just allocation of resources is by addressing the democratic deficits that underlie the skewed distribution (or the lack of redistribution) of assets and opportunities. He suggests that international law can play a role in the political empowerment of weak constituencies (within and between states). In doing so, international law can indirectly shape the distribution and redistribution of resources, in a manner that is more dignified and preferable to handing charitable contributions.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125232361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The International Rule of Law in Light of Legitimacy Claims","authors":"T. Marauhn","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter looks at legitimacy claims, contrasting them with theories of legitimacy and discussing how such claims may contribute to the ‘rise or decline’ of the international rule of law. The author studies examples from the areas of the ius ad bellum and the ius in bello. He concludes that legitimacy considerations will not allow a proper assessment of ‘rise or decline’ in themselves. Rather it is important to first establish a realistic perspective on what international law can achieve at all. In contrast to expectations that have been raised in particular after the end of the Cold War by many scholars, international law has not become a value-based constitutional arrangement of its constitutive entities, whether these are states or individuals.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128613991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global Justice, Global Governance, and International Law","authors":"M. Kamto","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter comments on Eyal Benvenisti’s discussion of international law’s contribution to global justice. It puts forward that global justice at the international level can only be the result of a permanent bargain and a compromise between the multiple and conflicting interests among states. It emphasizes that better governance at the global level involving the sharing of the policy-making and decision-making, accountability, the rule of law, and sanctions can help improve global justice. It concludes by suggesting that if international law could contribute to the advent of global justice in a move from ‘Responsibility to protect’ to ‘Responsibility to develop’, it would open a new era for its rise amongst nations and peoples.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123974583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Decay of the International Rule of Law Project (1990–2015)","authors":"J. V. Bernstorff","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter challenges the idea that the 1990s are the beginning of a golden era of the international rule of law. Rather they are interpreted as the climax of a phase of a US-dominated international institutional system and a phase of relatively uncontested Western hegemony which was often realized through transnational institutions but which was not necessarily created by international law. However, many institutional characteristics of this era conflicted or continued to conflict fundamentally with central elements of the original early twentieth-century rule of law project in international relations which subscribed to compulsory jurisdiction, rule-based collective security, sovereign equality of states, and codification. The United States and its Western partners missed out on the opportunity to use the ‘unipolar’ moment in modern world history to eventually realize and entrench such a fair rule of law system in international relations.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123939653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Contestation of Value-Based Norms: Confirmation or Erosion of International Law?","authors":"T. Maluwa","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter discusses the concepts of shared values and value-based norms. It examines two areas of international law that provide illustrative examples of contestation of value-based norms: the fight against impunity under international criminal law and the debates about the responsibility to protect. It argues that the African Union’s (AU) difference of view with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the indictment of Omar Al-Bashir is not a rejection of the non-impunity norm, but of the context and sequencing of its application. As regards the right of intervention codified in the Constitutive Act of the AU, Africans states responded to the failure of the Security Council to invoke its existing normative powers in the Rwanda situation by establishing a treaty-based norm of intervention, the first time that a regional international instrument had ever done so. Thus, in both cases one cannot speak of a decline of international law.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127717975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Should the European Court of Human Rights Respond to Criticism?","authors":"G. Ulfstein","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is a comment on Angelika Nußberger’s chapter on the rule of human rights law in Europe in an ever more hostile environment. It argues that the Court, in its effective interpretation, should avoid interfering in issues that are not of such a gravity to merit international supervision. In its evolutive interpretation, the Court should also clarify its use of a European consensus and abandon its unfettered discretion in using international legal instruments for this purpose. This could alleviate uneasiness with respect to the ECtHR as an activist Court. Moreover, the Court should treat states equally with respect to benefitting from the margin of appreciation. However, it is also essential for the Court to ensure that deference to domestic decision-makers does not undermine effective implementation of the ECHR.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115079823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is There a Compliance Trilemma in International Law?","authors":"Markus Jachtenfuchs","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is a comment on Jeffrey L Dunoff’s discussion of the compliance trilemma. It emphasizes that one needs to continue studying fuzzy concepts even if they are difficult to measure. Moreover, it argues that the compliance trilemma is a parsimonious tool for understanding tensions in global governance but not an inescapable structural constraint in an anarchic international system. Its tensions can be mediated or overcome by the clever design of international agreements or institutions.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"345 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134478726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Law in Times of Anti-Globalism and Populism—Challenges Ahead","authors":"A. Zimmermann, Norman Weiss","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter comments on Jan Wouters’ analysis of anti-globalist and populist challenges for international law. It offers a threefold approach consisting of recommendations for an effective multilateralism, efforts to strengthen the United Nations, and to include multilateralism in the domestic political agenda of Western democracies. It concludes by submitting that the output legitimacy of international law understood as the very substance of international law, and the advantages it creates for states (and their respective populations) might eventually undo the current populist developments.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129340279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Law, Informal Law-Making, and Global Governance in Times of Anti-Globalism and Populism","authors":"J. Wouters","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843603.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter focuses on the impact of globalization on public international law in times of anti-globalism and populism, where globalization itself has increasingly become contested. It submits that traditional public international law has been dangerously unreceptive in capturing new transnational regulatory actors and normative dynamics, which makes it more vulnerable to anti-globalist and populist attacks. It looks into the corresponding rise and certain features of ‘informal international law-making’ and ‘global governance’, as they may offer some responses to, or at least some defences against, anti-globalist and populist politics. It also addresses the current challenges which traditional forms of international law-making, like treaties and customary international law, are currently going through. It concludes that public international law will have to adapt to both the challenges of globalization and anti-globalism, if it is to remain relevant in regulating international life in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":112523,"journal":{"name":"The International Rule of Law","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129996637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}