International Law Goes to War in Ukraine 

Abstract

In this paper, which is baed on remarks made at Emory Law School, I aim to put the current war in Ukraine into historical context. I begin by explaining what the world used to look like under what I will call the Old World Order. I then explain how the world transitioned from the Old World Order to the New World Order. Finally, I turn to the current war in Ukraine. I discuss what we have learned about the challenges that the war poses to the current global legal order and what impact it has had so far.