TY  - CHAP
A1  - Krieger, Heike
A1  - Liese, Andrea
ED  - Krieger, Heike
ED  - Liese, Andrea
T1  - Introduction
T2  - Tracing value change in the international legal order
N2  - Can a metamorphosis of international law be identified while it is still underway? In Chapter 1, the Introduction, Krieger and Liese set the stage for the interdisciplinary assessment of the effects of the current crisis of the international legal order. They offer fundamental common values as a reference point and yardstick to systematically evaluate and analyse normative changes in international law. After explaining the benefits of interdisciplinary exchange and clarifying the basic concepts from the respective disciplinary perspectives, they develop the book’s conceptual framework for assessing and explaining value change in the international legal order. The Introduction also elaborates on the book’s research design and case selection and summarizes the aims and key contributions of each conceptual and empirical chapter.
KW  - value change
KW  - norm change
KW  - international legal order
KW  - interdisciplinarity
KW  - crisis
KW  - contestation
KW  - challenges for international law
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-0-19-285583-1
SN  - 978-0-19-266836-3
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855831.003.0001
SP  - 1
EP  - 22
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
ED  - Krieger, Heike
ED  - Liese, Andrea
T1  - Tracing value change in the international legal order
N2  - International law is constantly navigating the tension between preserving the status quo and adapting to new exigencies. But when and how do such adaptation processes give way to a more profound transformation, if not a crisis of international law? To address the question of how attacks on the international legal order are changing the value orientation of international law, this book brings together scholars of international law and international relations. By combining theoretical and methodological analyses with individual case studies, this book offers readers conceptualizations and tools to systematically examine value change and explore the drivers and mechanisms of these processes. These case studies scrutinize value change in the foundational norms of the post-1945 order and in norms representing the rise of the international legal order post-1990. They cover diverse issues: the prohibition of torture, the protection of women’s rights, the prohibition of the use of force, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, sustainability norms, and accountability for core international crimes. The challenges to each norm, the reactions by norm defenders, and the fate of each norm are also studied. Combined, the analyses show that while a few norms have remained surprisingly robust, several are changing, either in substance or in legal or social validity. The book concludes by integrating the conceptual and empirical insights from this interdisciplinary exchange to assess and explain the ambiguous nature of value change in international law beyond the extremes of mere progress or decline.
KW  - international legal order
KW  - international relations
KW  - value change
KW  - norm change
KW  - legal change
KW  - metamorphosis of international law
KW  - contestation
KW  - international law
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-0-19-285583-1
SN  - 978-0-19-266836-3
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192855831.001.0001
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -