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Introduction: images of law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

Friedrich Kratochwil
Friedrich Kratochwil
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European University Institute, Florence
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Images of law

Writing a book about the Status of Law in World Society inevitably conjures up certain associations. One is, of course, the perhaps subconscious reference to Richard’s Falk The Status of Law in International Society, which in turn took its cue from Hersh Lauterpacht’s earlier treatise. The other is to the concept of “world society,” which could be used analogously to the term “world politics” that once established the research program of one of the first journals in the field, but which consciously adopted a program for analysing both international and comparative politics. Or we could take it in the sense in which Niklas Luhmann and his school are using the term.

It would be tempting to connect the first and the last version and take them as points of reference, thereby constructing a coherent narrative in which the international has been replaced by the global, the state by “society,” and international law, formerly merely an adjunct to diplomacy and perhaps of relevance to “international organizations,” has finally become one of the main drivers shaping world politics. I shall resist that temptation and stay much closer to the second option, without wanting to deny the impact of globalization on states and societies and the fact that, for better or for worse, “law” and its “lawyers” have arrived as part of the professional class that manages our affairs. To that extent law now provides in large part the vocabulary for contemporary politics. Whether we discuss the “legality” of the second Gulf War, address human rights, the (in)admissibility of certain means of “enhanced interrogation,” or trade and development issues, legal concepts figure prominently in all arguments and are made by all sorts of people, be they decision-makers, journalists, public intellectuals, or the proverbial men (and women) in the street.

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The Status of Law in World Society
Meditations on the Role and Rule of Law
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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