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The aim of this article is to restate, refine and defend the constitutionalist argument in international law. As a basis for a more nuanced approach, the contribution sorts the phenomena to which the constitutionalization thesis refers. Secondly, it analyzes methodological and doctrinal features of constitutionalist approaches to public international law and clears up some myths in and about international constitutionalism. Finally, the text focuses on presumptions and burdens of justification established by various judicial institutions. They seem to express constitutional concerns in different areas of international law. It is submitted that these presumptions and burdens of justification are plausibly backed by processes of identity change and argumentative self-entrapment. On the basis of constructivist approaches in International Relations, these processes can be understood as creating the normativity of constitutional arguments. The special character of their normative force may be explained by classifying them as principles in contrast to strict rules.

Der Autor untersucht analytisches Potential und normative Konsequenzen der v lkerrechtlichen Konstitutionalisierungslehre. Anhand der Begriffsgeschichte zeigt er zun chst auf, wie sich der Verfassungsbegriff aussagekr ftig auf das V lkerrecht bertragen l sst. Sodann sp rt er Vorl ufern und philosophischen Wurzeln nach und sucht nach neuen Ankn pfungspunkten f r die. Konstitutionalisierungsthese. Vor diesem Hintergrund unterzieht er die Hierarchisierung und Objektivierung des V lkerrechts sowie die Bindung von internationalen Organisationen an Menschenrechte als m gliche Verfassungsmerkmale ein