The Pillars of Global Law

This book addresses important changes in key legal issues; it reconstructs a complex legal framework, and the emergence of a new international order that has still not been studied in depth, providing a compass that will prove a useful resource for students, researchers and policy makers within the field of law and with an interest in international relations.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: the 4 pillars of global law: verticality, legality, integration, and collective guarantees; Part I Verticality and Sharing of the Decisional Processes: Section I Global Law-Making: Dynamics of global rule-formation processes; Section II : Global Law-Enforcement System: The integrated system of law-enforcement; Section III: Global Justice: The international court of justice - from judicial organ to global court. Part II Legality Principles and Common Global Values: Legality versus effectivity in the global legal system Part III Integration of Legal Systems in the Direction of Global Law: State law and international law in a globalizing legal system. Part IV Collective Guarantees: An Embryonic New System: Section I Actions to Combat Global Terrorism: Heteronomous actions against terror: the military interventions; An integrated self-defence system against large-scale attacks by irregular forces: the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict; Section II Global Enforcement Mechanisms Against Terrorism: Joint mechanisms agains terrorists, insurgents and other non-state actors; The UN counter-terrorism system; Conclusions; Bibliography; Indexes.