Der Anthropozentrismus des Völkerrechts

The article reflects on the Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism, the first comprehensive volume explicitly addressing that topic, which seeks to unveil and conceptualize the anthropocentrism of international law as well as to imagine a non-anthropocentric international law. Taking the new Handbook as an impetus and inspiration, the review essay discusses the anthropocentrism of international law with special reference to the contributions of the Handbook. After a general look at the centrisms of international law, it focusses on the diagnosis of international legal anthropocentrism, i.e., that and how international law and its subfields are anthropocentric. Subsequently, it turns to different approaches to the anthropocentrism of international law and potential ways forward.
Vincent Chapaux, Frédéric Mégret, Usha Natarajan (Hrsg.), The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism, Abingdon/New York, Routledge, 2023, 341 S.