Introduction

I do not believe that there is a crisis in international law-making, but rather a crisis in the perception of the law-making process in international law. Given the characteristics of the international system, I submit that international law-making is working about as well as can be expected. Its "problems" arise from the nature of the contemporary international social and political systems within which the law-making process operates. Those problems are an ineluctable part of the practice of modern international law and constitute one of the reasons why the study and ...