ABSTRACT
The international legal system has weathered sweeping changes over the last decade as new participants have emerged. International law-making and law-enforcement processes have become increasingly multi-layered with unprecedented numbers of non-State actors, including individuals, insurgents, multinational corporations and even terrorist groups, being involved. This growth in the importance of non-State actors at the law-making and law-enforcement levels has generated a lot of new scholarly studies on the topic. However, while it remains uncontested that non-State actors are now playing an important role on the international plane, albeit in very different ways, international legal scholarship has remained riddled by controversy regarding the status of these new actors in international law.
This collection features contributions by renowned scholars, each of whom focuses on a particular theory or tradition of international law, a region, an institutional regime or a particular subject-matter, and considers how that perspective impacts on our understanding of the role and status of non-State actors. The book takes a critical approach as it seeks to gauge the extent to which each conception and understanding of international law is instrumental in the perception of non-State actors. In doing so the volume provides a wide panorama of all the contemporary legal issues arising in connection with the growing role of non-state actors in international-law making and international law-enforcement processes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
part I|60 pages
Theoretical perspectives
chapter 1|18 pages
Non-state actors from the perspective of legal positivism
chapter 2|13 pages
Non-state actors from an international constitutionalist perspective
chapter 4|12 pages
Non-state actors from the perspective of the policy-oriented school
part II|57 pages
The regional perspectives
chapter 6|14 pages
Non-state actors in French legal scholarship
chapter 7|12 pages
Non-state actors in North American legal scholarship
chapter 8|17 pages
Non-state actors in Southeast Asia
chapter 9|13 pages
Contemporary Russian perspectives on non-state actors*
part III|128 pages
Institutional perspectives
chapter 15|15 pages
The International Law Association and non-state actors
part IV|173 pages
Subject-matter based perspectives