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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/1d34ad6258dcbf89 https://verfassungsblog.de/international-legal-theory-and-constructive-thinking/ International Legal Theory and Constructive Thinking - Introduction to the Symposium Gorobets, Kostia Carcano, Andrea eng 2026-08-31 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In recent years, Professor Monica Hakimi of Columbia University has been a leading voice in tackling the role of theory and philosophy of international law. This stream of thinking aims not only at elucidating the role, function, and authority of international law, but also at bolstering constructive thinking about its proper place in today’s world. Her recent piece “Thinking Constructively about International Law” is an insightful analysis that exposes some fundamental conceptual premises of our discipline and challenges them with a cogently structured set of questions: Do these premises still hold? Are we still justified in relying on them? And if not, what should we be doing instead?