Tracing Value Change in the International Legal Order Perspectives from Legal and Political Science

by Krieger, Heike; Liese, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780192855831
• ISBN10: 0192855832
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Heike Krieger, Professor of International and Public Law, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany,Andrea Liese, Professor of International Relations, University of Potsdam, Germany

Heike Krieger holds the Chair for International and Public Law at the Freie Universität Berlin. She is Chair of the Berlin-Potsdam Research Group (KFG) “The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?” and was reviously a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. Between 2007 and 2014 she also acted as a judge of the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin. Her research focusses on general international law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law.

Andrea Liese is Professor of International Relations at the University of Potsdam and a member of the Berlin-Potsdam Research Group (KFG) “The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?”. She has previously held research and teaching positions at the Humboldt University of Berlin, at Freie Universität Berlin, and at the University of Bremen, where she received her PhD. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) and a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University. She graduated in political science, law, sociology, and German studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Value Change in the International Legal Order, Heike Krieger and Andrea Liese
Part I: Conceptualizing Change and Resilience of (Legal) Norms
2. Norm(ative) Change in International Relations: A Conceptual Framework, Antje Wiener
3. Is Winter Coming? - Norm Challenges and Norm Resilience, Wayne Sandholtz
4. Matters of Interpretation - How to Conceptualize and Evaluate Change of Norms and Values in the International Legal Order, Thomas Kleinlein
Part II: Peremptory Norms Shielding Values from Change?
5. Entrenching International Values through Positive Law: The (Limited) Effect of Peremptory Norms, Erika de Wet
6. There's Life in the Old Dog Yet: Assessing the Strength of the International Torture Prohibition, Max Lesch and Lisbeth Zimmermann
7. Ex iniuria ius oritur? - Norm Change and Norm Erosion of the Prohibition of Torture, Dominik Steiger
8. The Prohibition on the Use of Force: Plus Ça Change? - Towards a Theory of Global Normative Change, Theresa Reinold
9. Changing Perceptions on the Right of Self-Defence - Reflections from a Third World Perspective, Srinivas Burra
Part III: Reversing Post-cold War Trends of Norm Development?
10. The International Criminal Court: Between Sovereignty and the Internationalized Fight against Impunity, Adam Bower
11. Ideological Values and Norm Contestation in the ICC: The Afghanistan Investigation and American Opposition to Article 12(2)(a) Jurisdiction, Malcolm Jorgensen
12. Authoritarian Regimes and Nuclear Nonproliferation Norms, Alexandros Tokhi
13. Arms Control: Between the NPT and the Nuclear Taboo?, Mirko Sossai
14. International Women's Rights: Progress Under Attack?, Conny Roggeband
15. The Status of International Women's Rights - Are Women's Rights in Danger?, Lea Barbara Kuhlmann
16. The Future We Want? - Interlinking Global Sustainability Norm Change, Technology Innovation, and Regime Complexity, Sandra Schwindenhammer
17. Precaution and Genetically Modified Organisms: A Healthy Legal Environment?, Peter-Tobias Stoll
Part IV: Conclusion
18. Turbulence, Robustness, and Value Change, Heike Krieger and Andrea Liese