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14 GlobCon 1 (2025)

handle is hein.journals/globc14 and id is 1 raw text is: Gloal ofns tnaeiisraho; 225), 14.1, 1-L2 '7$(CAMBRIDGE doi:Sta':0' uNrEkvrsirY PRcsS KV~KS .~NLkY y's~~i;s.. Cw.'.. v41 tV iL.i'iN.5N, N' internati ArrA`: u ~ o na law: ` A. tke \ from Global \. • 'x ON5' N' N 5 > ~ o s Antje Wiener , Jo Shaw- , Jonathan Havercroftit, Susan Kang : and Stephanie Law 'Department of Political Science & Department of Law, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; 2Department of Political Science & Department of Lae, University of Cambridge, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, UK; 'School of Law Edinburgh, UK; 4School of Social Political Sciences, Glasgow, UK `John jay College of Criminal justice, City University of New York, New York, US and 6law School, Southampton, UK Corresponding author: Antle Wiener; lrnail i.jea:.:.. a.. am.og.. Abstract Taking Globai Constiumrionalism as asn agora, a platfonrm for international interdisciplinary discussions this article asks a question about the state we are in with regard to the international order as an order that is not just a 'rule-based order' but also more substan - tially, a 'legal order' based on the rule of law. The topic is illustrated with reference to examples of'contested compliance' i.e. objections to implemen ting international law and/or international rulings by interniational actors on behalf of signatories of states parties of a treaty. Three questions guidc this discussiosn. The first is a question of normatuve change: are we facing a change regarding UnitedN at ntes> respectfor and handling of the rule oflaw, or is a larger change of international law itself imminent? The second is a question about the effects of the shift from 'normal' contestations of norms to 'deep' contestations of the international order itself. And the third is a question about pluralism and diversity: are the UN Charter Order's institutions, conventions and orgamisations sufficiently equipped to respond to an ever more diverse range of internationally, trans nationally, and sub-nationally raised justicelisms? The article elaborates on each of the threee tses inlight of the current situation ofcontested compliance with obligations under international law. Keywords: contested compliance; global constitutionaisim; nternational Criminal Court; nornm conflict; norms; Paris Agreement; United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea Tn recent years, there have been a proliferation of contestations of the meanings of major international treaties. For example, during the first Trump administration, the United States's announced withdrawal from the Paris Agreement sparked a dispute about the meaning of the agreement. The Paris Agreement includes a provision allowing for -The Author(s) 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press. Ii,s is an Open Access artide,dimtibuted under the tens of the Creaive Commons Atlr-bution licence i . S ni..ins*g .N., h which perimts unrestricted re-use, disriburion and reproduction, provided the original artie is propery cited.