The New International Law: An Anthology

This volume contains revised versions of a select number of research papers presented at a conference in Oslo, Norway, entitled The New International Law . The conference was subtitled Polycentric Decision-making Structures and Fragmented Spheres of Law: What Implications for the New Generation of International Legal Discourse? This subtitle signals the most important elements of the conference’s main purpose which was to be a project in line with certain strands of contemporary scholarship on international law; scholarship that bases itself on certain assumptions regarding what are important and changing preconditions for the field of international law research.