Introduction (Ige F. Dekker & Wouter G. Werner) -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Neomedieval Renaissance: Global Governance and International Law in the New Middle Ages (Jörg Friedrichs) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual critique -- 2.1 New medievalism -- 2.2 Global governance -- 3. Conceptual clarifications -- 3.1 New medievalism -- 3.2 Global governance -- 4. International law -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Postscriptum: Co-operation and conflict among hegemonic projects -- Chapter 2 Lawyers and Anthropologists: A Legal Pluralist Approach to Global Governance (Gerhard Anders) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The blindness of legal science -- 3. The normative lawyer and the reflective anthropologist -- 4. The potential of legal pluralism -- 5. Transnational - national - local -- 6. Two approaches to legal pluralism -- 7. Conclusions: Possibilities and restrictions of a legal pluralist perspective -- Chapter 3 From Territoriality to Functionality? Towards a Legal Methodology of Globalization (Andreas L. Paulus) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The "domestic analogy" and the community vision of international law -- 2.1 The Charter as a constitution of the international community? -- 2.2 Substantive international law -- 3. The unequal institutionalization of international society and its consequences for international law -- 3.1 Value clash and unequal institutionalization: the example of the Shrimp/Turtle case -- 3.2 The problem of overlapping jurisdiction -- 3.3 World trade and other values - integration or opposition? -- 4. Conclusion: From constitution to discourse? -- Chapter 4 The Will of the International Community as a Normative Source of International Law (Nicholas Tsagourias) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical distinctions and articulations -- 3. The concept of international community.

4. The nature of the will of the international community -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 5 State Sovereignty and International Legal Discourse (Wouter G. Werner) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some challenges to state sovereignty examined -- 2.1 State sovereignty criticized -- 2.2 The endurance of state sovereignty as a discursive practice -- 3. Sovereignty and international society -- 3.1 Sovereignty and the "Westphalian society" -- 3.2 Sovereignty and international responsibility -- 4. The reversibility thesis and the difference between concepts and conceptions -- 4.1 The two faces of sovereignty: Freedom to act and freedom from interference -- 4.2 The concept and conceptions of sovereignty -- 5. Sovereignty and non-intervention: the regulation of the use of force -- 6. Epilogue -- Chapter 6 Globalization and the International Criminal Court: Accountability and a New Conception of State (Rod Jensen) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The sovereign state -- 3. The process of globalization -- 4. Developments in international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law -- 5. The creation of the ICC -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The International Criminal Court and the Sovereign State (Diane Marie Amann) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evolution of the International Criminal Court -- 2.1 Following tradition: Securing sovereign consent -- 2.2 Breaking with tradition: Conferring non-consensual jurisdiction -- 3. Conventional justifications for non-consensual jurisdiction -- 3.1 Individual, not state, responsibility -- 3.2 Enhanced legitimacy -- 3.3 Transfer of territorial jurisdiction -- 3.4 Universal jurisdiction -- 4. Non-consensual jurisdiction and theories of the state -- 4.1 The realist premise -- 4.2 The relational response -- 5. The International Criminal Court in light of the theories of state -- 6. Conclusion.

Chapter 8 Governance by International Organizations: Rethinking the Normative Force of International Decisions (Ige F. Dekker & Ramses A. Wessel) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The normative force of decisions of international organizations -- 2.1 Legal institutions -- 2.2 The legal competence of international organizations -- 2.3 Classifying the normative force of decisions -- 3. Relations between legal systems of international organizations and legal systems of member states -- 3.1 Validity relations between legal systems -- 3.2 Applicability, effect and supremacy -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 9 International Judicial Bodies as Sources of Normativity: The WTO Dispute Settlement in Comparative Context (Tomer Broude) -- 1. Assessing the evolving role of international judicial bodies -- 2. Relative judicial power and the legitimacy debate in the WTO -- 3. A framework for institutional comparison -- 4. Relative judicial power in the WTO DSS: A partial comparative analysis -- 4.1 Functional separation of the judiciary from other organs -- 4.1.1 The ICJ -- 4.1.2 The WTO DSS -- 4.2 Immediate reactive capacity of other organs -- 4.2.1 The ICJ -- 4.2.2 The WTO DSS -- 4.3 Long term reactive capacity of other organs -- 4.3.1 The ICJ -- 4.3.2 The WTO DSS -- 5. Conclusions -- Chapter 10 The European Court of Justice and Legal Pluralism: The Case Law on the "Four Freedoms" and the Pluralist Construction of the Legal System of the EuropeanCommunity (Herman Voogsgeerd) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recognition of diplomas -- 3. Posting of workers within the context of the free provision of services -- 4. Purely internal situations -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Non-State Actors: Undermining or Increasing the Legitimacy and Transparency of International Environmental Law (Joyeeta Gupta) -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Global environmental governance.

1.2 The environment, development and the law of sustainable development -- 2. The increasing role and participation of non-state actors in the climate change regime -- 3. The role of non-state actors and the implications for international law -- 3.1 Failure of the state? -- 3.2 Non-state actors and transparency -- 3.3 Non-state actors and (legal) legitimacy -- 3.4 Non-state actors, legitimacy and the assumptions of international law -- 3.5 Non-state actors, corporatism and democracy -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 12 NGOs, the International Criminal Court, and the Politics of Writing International Law (Michael J. Struett) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sovereignty issues with the International Criminal Court -- 3. NGOs and the social construction of treaty law practice -- 4. Status of states and NGOs in creating treaty law -- 5. Reinterpreting the rules of treaty writing -- 6. The power of NGOs -- 7. Institutions, institutional change and actors -- 8. NGO tactics: Expanding the discourse and legal expertise -- 9. The opening for the ICC? Discourse in the 1990s -- 10. NGO contributions to the Rome Treaty process -- 11. Conclusions -- Chapter 13 Balancing Norms in Cyberspace: State and Non-State Actor Normativity in Cyberspace (J.P. Mifsud Bonnici & C.N.J. de Vey Mestdagh) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Governance in cyberspace -- 2.1 States and cyberspace governance -- 2.1.1 Formal legislation -- 2.1.2 Informal state normativity -- 2.2 ISPs and cyberspace governance -- 2.2.1 Self-regulation of ISPs -- 2.2.2 ISPs, their customers and third parties -- 2.2.3 ISPs and accountability -- 3. Discussion -- 3.1 Cyberspace -- 3.1.1 A-territorial nature -- 3.1.2 Communities of interest -- 3.1.3 Technological aspects -- 3.2 Globalization -- 3.2.1 Shifting foci of control -- 3.2.2 Privatization of markets -- 3.2.3 Privatization of normativity -- 3.2.4 Political inertia.

4. Conclusion.