Symposium: The Changing
Structure of International Law Revisited
(Part 3)
The essays published in these pages form part of an ongoing
symposium. The Institut des hautes études internationales and the
European Journal of International Law convened a conference on `The
Changing Structure of International Law Revisited' in March 1997, bringing
together a group of European and American scholars to discuss the current
state of international law in the light of changes that have occurred,
both on doctrinal and practical levels, in recent decades. The symposium
identified four areas of investigation: The state between fragmentation
and globalization; Is there a hierarchy of norms in international law?; Is
international law moving towards criminalization?, and; Where does the
international community stand? Papers on the first two themes appeared in
EJIL volume 8, issues
3 and
4. The
remaining part will be published in the
next issue
of the journal.