The New Global Law Book

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xxv

Part 1 From the Ius Gentium to International Law

1 The Ius Gentium, a Roman Concept 3

1 A Law for Every Age 3

2 A Word about Dike 5

3 Cicero, Father of the Ius Gentium 6

4 The Ius Gentium in Other Roman Writings 8

2 The Ius Commune, a Medieval Concept 12

1 The Ius Gentium in the Middle Ages 12

2 European Common Law 14

3 English Common Law Contrasted with Civil Law 16

4 Ius Canonicum 18

5 Islamic Sharia and Siyar 19

3 International Law, a Modern Concept 22

1 From Ius Gentium to Ius Inter Gentes 22

2 Ius Gentium Europaeum 25

3 Kant, between Staatenrecht and Weltbügerrecht 28

4 Bentham and International Law 30

5 Public and Private International Law 32

6 New Attempts at Conceptualization 35

A Philip C. Jessup's Transnational Law 37

B C. Wilfred Jenks and the Common Law of Mankind 39

C John Rawls and The Law of Peoples 41

D Álvaro d'Ors and Geodierética 43

7 Ius Naturale in the Shadow of Ius Gentium 44

Part 2 Toward A Global Law

4 The Crisis of International Law 53

1 International Law and the Globalization of Law 55

2 The Basic Primacy of States as Subjects of International Law 57

3 The Death Throes of the State 61

A Sovereignty and the Sovereign People 65

B The Crisis of Territoriality 73

C Jurisdiction: Does It Belong to the State? 77

D The Nation-State: A Marriage of Convenience Doomed to Divorce 82

4 The Future of the United Nations 88

5 Global Law, a Challenge for Our Time 98

1 The Need for Global Law 98

2 International Society versus Global Community 102

3 Cosmopolitanism and Global Law 104

4 Crisis of Nationality, Global Citizenship, and Patriotism 106

5 Global Law and Nonstate Law 109

6 Arbitration and Globalization 110

7 The Usus of the Earth 113

8 Humanity as Anthroparchy 115

6 The Global Legal Order 121

1 The Person, Center of the Global Legal Order 123

A Are Persons Legal Persons? 126

B Are Animals Persons? 129

2 Personal Dignity, Liberty, and Equality 131

A Human Dignity 131

B Personal Liberty 136

C Equality among Persons 139

3 Human Rights, at the Heart of Clobal Law 142

4 Quod Omnes Tangit ab Omnibus Approbetur 144

5 United Humanity 145

6 Culmination: The New Pyramid of Law 147

A Structure of the Pyramid 147

B Legal Three-Dimensionality 149

7 Legal Principles of Global Law 154

1 Rules-Based Principles and Principled Rules 154

2 Principles Common to International and Global Legal Orders 157

A Principle of Justice 158

B Principle of Reasonableness 162

C Principle of Coercion 166

3 Specific Principles of the Global Order 170

A Principle of Universality 170

B Principle of Solidarity 173

C Principle of Subsidiarity 176

D Principle of Horizontality or Democratization 181

4 Rules of Global Law (Iuris Universalis Regulae) 185

Conclusion: The Third Time Is the Charm 195

Index 201