Towards the International Rule of Law: Essays in Integrated Constitutional Theory Book

A globalising world is a world which is forming itself, haphazardly and often reluctantly, into a single human society. Somehow we have to learn to live together as a species, as we have learned, slowly and often painfully, to live together in all the other forms of human society. One lesson we have learned is that it is the law that provides the essential structure of a society and allows it to survive and prosper. The rule of law has been an essential instrument of social progress. The international rule of law is an essential requirement of social progress at the global level. Integrated constitutional theory explores the problems and the possibilities of extrapolating the rule of law from the national to the global level. And it explores the problems and possibilities of the intrusion of international law and international institutions into law and government at the national level. Towards the International Rule of Law contains fourteen essays, some of them published here for the first time, by a leading international legal philosopher, covering many of the most fundamental aspects of the emerging integration of the national and international constitutional orders. The essays offer new and profound insights to stimulate the thinking of all those who need to think about the impact of the globalising world on national constitutional development and to all those who are seeking to integrate national constitutional experience into the making of the new international legal order.Read More