The question of whether global norms are experiencing a crisis allows for two concurrent answers. From a facticity perspective, certain global norms are under crisis, given their world-wide lack of implementation and effectiveness. From a validity perspective, however, a crisis is not obvious,...

The 2020 draft EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) contains a Section devoted to “Investment and Sustainable Development” (ISD Section). That Section is closely aligned with the “Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters” (TSD Chapters) included in the EU’s Free Trade...

Spanish Abstract: El capítulo argumenta que cuando una corte constitucional debe resolver un conflicto normativo entre un acuerdo internacional de inversiones (AII) y una Constitución nacional, no solo está decidiendo sobre la compatibilidad o no del tratado con el derecho interno, sino...

Global governance has created a complex web of public, private and hybrid actors that assert power, claim legitimacy and affect public interests. This process has generated diverse forms of governance authority. The standard dichotomy of public vs. private authority sometimes struggles to...

Following a trajectory similar to most (Western) constitutional systems, US administrative agencies have exponentially grown in power and scope during the twentieth century. As such expansion has often taken place with weak legal bases and, more generally, thin congressional oversight, this...

This encyclopedia entry offers an overview of access to justice in the field of human rights. While the concept of access to justice is difficult to grasp, the entry identifies two primary ways in which it intersects with human rights: On the one hand, access to justice relates to the...

A complex process of constitutionalisation is currently under way within contemporary society. A multiplicity of normative counteractions is emerging to address the challenges of the digital revolution. However, there is no single constitutional framer. In a globalised environment,...

Social movements are an important part of a functioning society – also on a global scale. I argue that the internet and social media enable the formation of informal civil society movements and provide the means for such movements to participate in the shaping of international law to an...

World economy and world science have not yet found a counterpart in a world state and probably never will. However, the contours of a global political system have emerged, which fulfils the functions of statehood at the global level Such systems does not take the form of a uniform...

Over recent years, many have called the WHO responsible for a number of failures in global health governance, in particular those concerning late or insufficient response to the spread of infectious diseases such as swine flu, Ebola or Covid-19. The present contribution therefore examines some...