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The ethics of state consent to international law

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
State consent is the primary mechanism by which international legal rules are generated and amended and by which states undertake legal obligations.
Carmen E. Pavel
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Proportionality and precaution

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide invoked the ‘precautionary principle’ to justify policies designed to protect public health. This principle holds that the state may act proactively to avert harm where there is factual uncertainty ...
Mark Friedman, Anthony Sangiuliano
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Lifeboats and their problems: On the downsides of an influential metaphor in political theory

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
Boat-based metaphors, which portray individual societies or even humanity as a whole as cast adrift on a sea of challenges, have resonated within political theory since the time of Plato, and they continue to frame how we understand and respond to key ...
Chris Armstrong
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Dynamics of salient normative status dimensions and issues in a changing international order

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
Salient normative status dimensions, or the socially significant and widespread ideational bases on which states seek to be viewed positively in international societies, pattern inter-state relations and signal fluctuating values underpinning an ...
Catherine Hecht
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