The Future of International Law: Global Government pdf

Joel Trachtman is Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Recognized worldwide as a leading authority on international law, he has published eight academic books and over 100 scholarly articles. He has lectured at the American Law Institute, Berkeley, Cambridge, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, European University Institute, Georgetown, Hamburg, Harvard, Hong Kong, the London School of Economics, NYU, the OECD, Oxford, Singapore, UCLA, the United Nations, Virginia, the World Trade Organization, Yale, and other leading organizations and universities around the world. Before entering academia he practiced law with a Wall Street law firm in New York and in Hong Kong.

The Future of International Law: Global Government pdf by Joel Trachtman

The world is changing rapidly, and there are increasing calls for international legal responses. There is and will be increasing social change in areas such as globalization, development, demography, democratization, and technology. Because of this change, international relations does and will occupy an expanding proportion of the concerns of citizens and the responsibilities of states. This will drive greater production of international law and organizational structures. The resulting denser body of law and organizations will take on more prominent governmental functions. It is in this sense that the future of international law is global government. This book draws together the theoretical and practical aspects of international cooperation needs and legal responses in critical areas of international concern. On this basis, the book predicts that a more extensive, powerful, and varied international legal system will be needed to cope with future opportunities and challenges.