ABSTRACT
I end by remarking on the capacity of the ROL to consolidate existing structural inequalities and support the activities of elites. The ROL, in an international society in which such inequalities are deeper and less easily ameliorated, is likely to be, what I call, the rule of humanity’s law. The latter – pervasive and increasingly ascendant – underpins a system in which punitive security measures and humanitarian self-confidence sit side-by-side.
