Too soon to foresee the reality of global law. International Criminal Law Constitutes the Sole Field Where the Promise of Global Law Provides Solid Ground
| Autor | Juan Daniel Jaramillo-Ortiz |
| Páginas | 49-62 |
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Conicto & Sociedad Vol. 2, N°1, enero - junio de 2014, pp. 49-62 - ISSN 2322-6900 - UNISABANETA - Sabaneta
Too soon to foresee the reality of global law
Juan Daniel Jaramillo-Ortiz**
Foreword
In 2008, I found a book that would mark my academic and professional work over
the following years. It was Defending Humanity [Oxford University Press, 2008]. In
the conclusion, authors George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin write: “The value
of a national culture is not just instrumental, but intrinsic. National cultures are
more than a source of warmongering and national prejudice, they are a source of
the relationships between globalization, nationality and international law. I would
intuitively conclude later that globalization is a far more complex phenomenon than
we tend to believe; also, that the concept of nationality is not ready to disappear but
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minal law realistically holds the promise of an expanding legal globalization. These
* This paper forms the basis of a major research project about global law and intern ational law carried
out by Professor of Law Juan Daniel Jaramillo-Ortiz, UniSabaneta, Colombia, Sabaneta, Antioquia
** Abogado, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia, Master of Arts Economics, Vander-
bilt University, Nashville, Tenn, USA; Master of Arts International Relations, The Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass USA; Master of Laws, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass USA; PhD, Leiden Universitat, Leiden, Netherlands-The Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass, USA
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