Resumen de Hilary Charlesworth and Jean-Marc Coicaud (eds.). Fault Lines of International Legitimacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 416. ?70. ISBN:9780521764469. -- Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope. Legitimacy and Legality in International Law. An Interactional Account. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 434. ?31. ISBN:9780521706834 -- Chris Thornhill. A Sociology of Constitutions. Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. 466. ?65. ISBN:9780521116213
Legitimacy has become a popular subject in international law and international relations in the last decade. If previously the issue of legitimacy was addressed only subsidiarily to other issues, today books and articles taking the issue of legitimacy as their main subject abound. The books under review illustrate this trend. They all address "legitimacy", but approach the notion from different perspectives.
