Complexity Rules (or: Ruling Complexity), a Response to Jutta Brunnée

Heike Krieger/Georg Nolte/Andreas Zimmermann (eds), The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?

Hebrew University of Jerusalem International Law Forum Working Series 08-17

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper 18-1

10 Pages Posted: 28 Nov 2017 Last revised: 29 Nov 2017

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Tomer Broude

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - International Law Forum

Date Written: November 22, 2017

Abstract

This paper is a comment on the capacity of international law to address complex problems such as climate change, as a complement and response to a paper written on the topic by Prof. Jutta Brunnée, as part of the Berlin/Potsdam research group, "International rule of law - Rise or Decline?". The comment first questions whether complexity is in fact a special case or rather an all-pervading characteristic of international relations, and by extension, of international law. Second, the comment questions - notwithstanding the current angst that internationalist lawyers feel and express due to what seems like a tidal-scale assault on international law - whether the international rule-of-law management of complexity is a particularly contemporary issue, or just another iteration of recurrent, resurgent, occasionally even refreshing, frictions that characterize international law. Third, the comment asks whether the challenges of complexity maintain a special relationship with international law, or whether these are substantially the same as the interactions of these issues with domestic legal systems.

Keywords: International law, climate change, complexity theory

Suggested Citation

Broude, Tomer, Complexity Rules (or: Ruling Complexity), a Response to Jutta Brunnée (November 22, 2017). Heike Krieger/Georg Nolte/Andreas Zimmermann (eds), The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?, Hebrew University of Jerusalem International Law Forum Working Series 08-17, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Legal Research Paper 18-1, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3075798 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3075798

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