Has respect for international law reached a breaking point? Has the gap between the “law in books” and the “law in action” become too wide? Or is international law more stable and resilient than its critics want to believe?
To help us think through these questions, IFIT Executive Director Mark Freeman sits down with three outstanding experts from IFIT's global network: Sarah Nouwen, Professor of Public International Law at the European University Institute; Shaharzad Akbar, prominent Afghan human rights defender and Executive Director of Rawadari; and Thierry Cruvellier, Editor-in-Chief of Justice Info, the world's leading news website on international justice.
There is a lot of talk about the crisis of international law, but what are we exactly talking about and how is it fundamentally different than in the past? Sarah Nouwen clarifies. Doesn’t it always depend on who is committing the violations, and who are the victims? asks Shaharzad Akbar. Is there something new, or is it just more public? The return or aggression wars and annexations has obviously changed the world picture and the 1945 legal order, states Thierry Cruvellier. But we may need to see this crisis as one among at least three other major transformations, he says.
DEAD MEN WALKING
“Dead Men Walking” - Conversations on Global Norms and Institutions - is a new podcast series produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info. In each episode, we bring together leading thinkers and practitioners from IFIT’s 400+ global expert network to take an honest look at the problems afflicting 20th century global norms and institutions and to consider the new ideas needed for a changing world order.
