Introduction

Summary

This book has its origins in a seminar which took place on 6–7 May 2015 at Tillar House, the headquarters of the American Society of International Law in Washington, DC. The title of the seminar, which was organized under the auspices of the International Legal Theory Group of the American Society, was “Whither the West? Debates on Concepts of International Law in Europe and America”. As organizers, our purpose was to gather a group of scholars based in Europe and North America to reflect on the state of the field, both in a general sense and in relation to specific issues.