Structural Challenges in a Multipolar and Multicultural Global Legal Era: BRICS' Global Legal Politics Beyond Cultural and Economic Partnerships

Abstract

New emerging international dynamics introduce a global poly-axiological polycentric disorder which undermines the tradition of a unique global legal order in international law. Modern Era was characterized by Western European civilizational model-from which human rights is a byproduct. This consensus had its legitimacy tested by XX st century's scenario-and the 'BRICS factor/actor' is a symptom of this reality. Its empowerment in world politics lead to the rise of distinct groups of States/civilizations provided with different legal, political, economic and social traditions-promoting an unexpected uprise of otherness in international legal order and inviting it to a complete and unforeseeable reframing process. Beyond Washington or Brussels Consensus, other custom-originated discourses (Brasília, Moscow, New Delhi, Peking or Cape Town Consensus, among other unfolded possibilities) will probably henceforth attempt shaping international law in present global legal disorder.