The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?

Heike Krieger, Georg Nolte and Andreas Zimmermann, The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline? (Oxford University Press, 2019).

In this book distinguished scholars reflect on how to approach these questions from historical, system-oriented, and actor-centred perspectives. The contributions engage, inter alia, with the rise of European international law since the seventeenth century, compliance as an indicator for the state of international law, informal law-making in times of populism, the influence of the BRICS states and non-state actors on international law, international law's contribution to global justice, the contestation of value-based norms, and the international rule of law in light of legitimacy claims. In a time of global instability, this books makes an important contribution to our understanding of the resilience of the international rule of law.

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