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The Democratic Legitimacy of International Law

This is a substantive work of 425 pages (160,000 words, including footnotes). It is an ambitious, original single-authored monograph that applies the insights of discourse theory to global regulation. Following critical evaluation of competing narratives on the relationship between democracy and international law, the work restates the problem from the perspective of constitutional democracies. The aim is to reconcile the counterfactual deliberative ideal with international law’s authority and the emergence of autonomous global regulatory regimes. Drawing on complex arguments of legal theory, the work constructs the idea of legitimate authority in terms of deliberative principles of discourse, democracy, and representation.