Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface The 'Arab Spring': Constitutionalism and International Law -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Changing the Guard-The Price of Democracy: Lessons from the Arab Spring on Constitutionalism -- Chapter Two The Emergence of a Right to Democracy-An African Perspective -- Chapter Three Human Rights, Democracy and the Legitimacy of Governments in International Law: Practice of States and UN Organs -- Chapter Four The Arab People's Revolution-Modernising the Legal Environment -- Chapter Five The United Nations Security Council, Libya and Resolution 1973: Protection of Civilians or Tool for Regime Change? -- Chapter Six Women of the Revolution: The Future of Women's Rights in post-Gaddafi Libya -- Chapter Seven Security Council Resolution 1973: A New Interpretation of the Notion of Protection of Civilians? -- Chapter Eight Pro-Democratic Intervention, Invitation, or "Responsibility to Protect"? Challenges to International Law from the "Arab Spring" -- Chapter Nine The Possible Role of National Courts in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring -- Chapter Ten Protecting Cultural Heritage: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity during Conflicts and Revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East -- Chapter Eleven Palestinian Self-Determination and a State of Aspiration -- Chapter Twelve Egypt's Complicity in Torture and Extraordinary Renditions -- Index.