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Remarks by Shruti Rana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Shruti Rana*
Affiliation:
Assistant Dean for Curricular and Undergraduate Affairs, Professor, International Law and Director, International Law and Institutions Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington.

Extract

We find ourselves today poised on the edge of a moment of transition. As the traditional structures and institutions of the post-World War II global legal order weaken or fall around us, international lawyers have been questioning whether what we are witnessing is merely a cyclical downturn in the strength and utility of the international legal order, that is, just another periodic adjustment or ebb from the high-water mark of the 1990s—or whether we are instead witnessing the messy and painful collapse of one order and the bloody birth of another.

Type
Backlash to the international legal order: breakdown or breakthrough?
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 The collaborators on the multi-year Navigating the Backlash to Global Law and Institutions project (funded by a grant from Australian National University, Global Research Partnership Scheme) are Peter Danchin, Jeremy Farrall, Jo Ford, Shruti Rana, and Imogen Saunders.

2 See Peter Danchin, Jeremy Farrall, Shruti Rana & Imogen Saunders, The Pandemic Paradox in International Law, 114 AJIL 598 (2020).