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2021

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Do today's international lawyers and political philosophers have something to learn from one another? Do they, we dare say, share any common agendas about the future of global governance? Judging from recent work within both fields, scholars are getting around to a tentative yes. Two disciplines that worked on common issues of global concern, but on separate tracks, are now engaging with one another's work more than ever. The time is thus propitious to appraise (and yes, celebrate) important works in this interdisciplinary frame. Carmen Pavel's Law Beyond the State presents a morally grounded bold vision for a more robust international law. As such, it also offers a new opportunity to explore the past, present, and future of international law and global institutions from a multidisciplinary perspective. As the book draws on and contributes to several disciplines, we have invited four scholars from law and philosophy to discuss the book in successive blogposts. We are very pleased that the author has agreed to close the symposium with a short response.

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© 2025 Völkerrechtsblog. All Articles are published under Creative Commons license BY SA 4.0. Originally posted as Steven Ratner & Andreas Føllesdal, A Moral Defense of Robust International Law: Introducing the Review Symposium on Carmen Pavel’s Law Beyond the State , Völkerrechtsblog, 08.11.2021, doi: 10.17176/20211108-131023-0

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