Research report 2024 - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
The individual in international law: history and theory
Authors
Peters, Anne; Sparks, Tom
Departments
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Summary
In our book, we explore how the status of the human individual has evolved in international law. This “humanisation” is analysed in different historical periods (from antiquity to 1945) and from various theoretical perspectives (ius positivism and ius naturalism, Marxism, TWAIL, feminism, global law, global constitutionalism, law and economics, and legal anthropology). International law must face post-anthropocentrism in an era of deep ecological and technical challenge, and we see a humanisation of new fields ranging from the ius contra bellum to climate law.