We find ourselves today poised on the edge of a moment of transition. As the traditional structures and institutions of the post-World War II global legal order weaken or fall around us, international lawyers have been questioning whether what we are witnessing is merely a cyclical downturn in the strength and utility of the international legal order, that is, just another periodic adjustment or ebb from the high-water mark of the 1990s—or whether we are instead witnessing the messy and painful collapse of one order and the bloody birth of another.