Full Description
This book grows out of the work of a study group convened by the American Branch of the International Law Association. The group had a mandate to examine threats to the rules-based international order and possible responses. The several chapters in the book-all of which are written by distinguished international law scholars--generally support the conclusion that the rules-based international order confronts significant challenges, but it is not unraveling--at least, not yet. Climate change is the biggest wild card in trying to predict the future. If the world's major powers--especially the United States and China--cooperate with each other to combat climate change, then other threats to the rules-based order should be manageable. If the world's major powers fail to address the climate crisis by 2040 or 2050, the other threats addressed in this volume may come to be seen as trivial in comparison.
The book consists of fourteen chapters, plus an introduction. Three chapters address specific threats to the rules-based international order: climate change, autonomous weapons, and cyber weapons. Eight chapters address particular substantive areas of international law: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, trade law, investment law, anti-bribery law, human rights law, international criminal law, and migration law. The remaining chapters provide a range of perspectives on the past evolution and likely future development of the rules-based international order as a whole.
Contents
Introduction: Preserving a Rules-Based International Order by David L. Sloss
Part One - Systemic Issues
Chapter 1. The Rise and Decline of a Liberal International Order by Richard H. Steinberg
Chapter 2. The West and the Unraveling of the Economic World Order: Thoughts from a Global South Perspective by James T. Gathii and Sergio Puig
Chapter 3. The Future of Liberal Democracy in the International Legal Order by Tom Ginsburg
Chapter 4. Revolution or Collapse?: Climate Change and the International Legal Order by Maxine Burkett
Part Two - International Peace and Security
Chapter 5. War and the Words: The International Use of Force in the United Nations Charter Era by Lauren Sukin and Allen S. Weiner
Chapter 6. The Jus in Bello Under Strain: Diluted but not Disintegrating by Laura A. Dickinson
Chapter 7. Autonomous Weapons by Chris Jenks
Chapter 8. Cyber Conflict and the Thresholds of War by Ido Kilovaty
Part Three - International Economic Law and Institutions
Chapter The Experimental Evolution of Trade Law by Kathleen Claussen
Chapter 10. Strength in Obscurity: The Resilience of International Investment Law by Jeremy Rabkin
Chapter 11. Anti-Bribery Law by Paul B. Stephan
Part Four - Human Rights and Related Issues
Chapter 12. Authoritarianism, International Human Rights, and Legal Change by Wayne Sandholtz
Chapter 13. The International Criminal Law of the Future by Leila N. Sadat
Chapter 14. Migration and International Legal Disorder by Jaya Ramji-Nogales
