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Comment on Nico Krisch, “The Decay of Consent: International Law in an Age of Global Public Goods”

Part of: Nico Krisch, “The Decay of Consent: International Law in an Age of Global Public Goods”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Eyal Benvenisti  and
George W. Downs
Eyal Benvenisti
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
George W. Downs
Affiliation:
New York University
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In his recent article, Nico Krisch joins an increasing number of scholars who worry about the “turn toward nonconsensual structures” in international lawmaking. Although the article is primarily descriptive and does not set out to offer either a rigorous explanation or a normative assessment of this trend, Krisch does suggest that the trend “reflects the fact that the need for greater cooperation [at the global level] . . . is not always, or not even typically, satisfied by international law.” It also gives voice to the concern that the move to informal institutions “point[s] in the direction of more hierarchical forms of governance” that increasingly cater to a small number of powerful states, rather than to the traditional, broad, consent-based order.

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Symposium: Nico Krisch, “The Decay of Consent: International Law in an Age of Global Public Goods”
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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