@article{Krisch:299462,
      recid = {299462},
      author = {Krisch, Nico},
      title = {The dynamics of international law redux},
      address = {2021},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {Law is constantly caught between stasis and dynamism,  between the production of legal certainty and the  adaptation to a changing environment. The tension between  both is particularly acute in international law, given the  absence of legislative mechanisms on the international  level and the high doctrinal thresholds for change through  treaties or customary law. Despite this apparent tendency  towards stasis, international law is changing frequently  and rapidly in many areas, though in ways that are not well  understood. This article seeks to begin an inquiry into  these ways of change, starting from two vignettes of recent  change processes and presenting a number of conjectures  about core elements of a conceptualization of change in  international law. The resulting picture reflects  significant variation across different areas of  international law, multiple paths of change outside  traditional categories, and states in different—and not  always central—roles. Much change observed in contemporary  international law travels on paths and is advanced by  authorities created by social actors and their practices  relatively independently from doctrinal representations.  This presents a challenge for doctrinal categories, and it  should provoke a broader, empirical reconstruction of the  social life of international law today—a far more dynamic  but also less orderly life than typically assumed.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/299462},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuab008},
}