Encyclopaedia of International Law, Judicial and Legal Systems of the World (International Law)

international lawyers have often construed international constitutionalism as an offspring of the institutionalization of international law. An international constitutionalism would be able to draw the conclusion from the increasing institutionalization of the international realm by applying principles known from domestic constitutional law to the international system, resulting in a universal Kantian "state of law," away from the "state of nature" or anarchy of international relations. In the s