Opinion: Does international law even matter anymore?

There has been a widespread global outcry against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, but it has yet to be translated into concrete steps at the international level to stop Israel. 

Amid the ongoing violence and oppression in Gaza, this discrepancy between global popular will and state/institutional action has fuelled the public’s growing distrust in the international system, and perhaps most importantly, in international law itself.

Amid this backdrop, the need to reevaluate the functions of international law has become extremely pressing. 

READ MORE: Does international law even matter anymore? Opinion by Selçuk Aydın and M Behesti Aydogan