This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought. It argues that economic globalization and digitalization have induced significant insecurity about the future of human social organization. While traditional international law as a system based on the consent of national states is in the process of rapid adaptation to its new social preconditions, a variety of transnational regulatory levels compete for legal authority. In this process of change, there is more need than ever to guide the theoretical understanding because academic concepts have a crucial influence on the emerging practice of global law. This book highlights which choices are available and argues that global law requires taking a stand in mutually irreconcilable choices.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to global legal thought. It argues that economic globalization and digitalization have induced significant insecurity about the future of human social organization. While traditional international law as a system based on the consent of national states is in the process of rapid adaptation to its new social preconditions, a variety of transnational regulatory levels compete for legal authority. In this process of change, there is more need than ever to guide the theoretical understanding because academic concepts have a crucial influence on the emerging practice of global law. This book highlights which choices are available and argues that global law requires taking a stand in mutually irreconcilable choices.

Die Frage, wie und von wem staatliche Herrschaft zu organisieren ist, berührt zentrale Elemente unserer Verfassungsordnung. Von der historischen Begrifflichkeit der Organisationsgewalt bis hin zur heutigen Europäisierung des Verwaltungsrechts wird immer wieder die Frage zentral, welche substanziellen Aussagen dem Grundgesetz über die Verwaltungsorganisation zu entnehmen sind. David Roth-Isigkeit erarbeitet ein umfassendes Bild davon, welche Akteure im Verfassungsstaat über die Organisation der öffentlichen Verwaltung zu entscheiden haben und an welche verfassungsrechtlichen Maßstäbe sie dabei gebunden sind. Dabei zeigt sich die durchdringende Ordnungskraft des besonderen Verhältnisses von Demokratie und Rechtsstaat in der deutschen Verfassungsdogmatik.