ABSTRACT
Global law is in an embryonic phase. That is the way legal scholars, who are used to more articulated systems, view it. It is growing as the law of a common humanity brings with it the emergence of an organizational model of the world’s society based on the gradual integration of various systems of organization (legal, social, economic, mediatic, etc.) at different aggregation levels, local to worldwide (that is, national states, regional and universal organizations, multinational corporations, NGOs, media networks, etc.). Framed this way, global law is the third stage of development of international law, 1 the preceding two phases being those described by Wolfgang Friedmann 2 (i.e., the international law of coexistence and the international law of cooperation).
