ABSTRACT
Managing change is increasingly a characteristic of modern legal systems, not least international law. This essay explores some of the types of change that may occur in and through international law, and the processes driving them. A distinction is drawn between “paradigmatic” change to the structure of international law itself, and change in the form of modification to existing rules of international law, which is largely context-driven. The premise is that contemporary international law is constantly evolving, and that it reserves for itself the right to determine the rules and procedures to effect change.
