,,,Addressing Global Challenges through Pluralistic Sovereignty: A critique of state sovereignty as a centerpiece of international law

Editor’s Note: In this Article by KU Law faculty member John Head, we join global issues with Kansas issues. Professor Head explores a central concept of international law—the concept of sovereignty, as exercised by nation-states—with an eye to urging legal reforms that will help address global challenges that have special relevance to our own state. As he notes near the end of the “Introduction” to his Article, the issues he addresses bear importantly on agriculture and climate change, which are crucial to the future of Kansas. Moreover, he suggests that addressing global legal issues offers an opportunity for Kansas to add a new chapter to its “long history of progressive legal reform.”