The integration of the law in a politically fragmented world

Abstract

It is currently consensual the evaluation that the contemporary world is politically fragmented, and that there is no country or international organization that gives broad direction to the international affairs. This evaluation is usually automatically transferred to the understanding of the field of law, which is considered highly fragmented, because both the existence of more than two hundred national legal systems, and the lack of coordination and effectiveness of international law. If it is true that the international political scene is fragmented, this automatic correlation with the field of law is not justified. This is due to the fact that the law has been presenting at the global level, since the mid-twentieth century, a clear tendency towards integration and also to uniformization, as a result of various mechanisms of compatibility of different national and international legal systems.