Symposium: The Changing
Structure of International Law Revisited
(Part 4)
The essays published in these pages form the final 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
three themes appeared in EJIL volume 8, numbers
3 and
4 and volume
9, number 1.