There may be some truth to this, and often it is an ugly truth. At times there is worse. The ease with which intellectual and even political disagreement revert to national and national-like characterization has it own less than exquisite irony. Leben gives a tantalizing hint in his allusion to Friedmann as the man of culture. We divide our essay into three parts.
Nobody likes to be labelled.
Thus, there are major differences between, say, a Carty and a Koskenniemi, but we still found it useful to group them together under the Critical School. We readily acknowledge that it, too, is a very loose umbrella. In the second part of this essay we illustrate briefly how these different schools view the question of Hierarchy. In the third part we offer some final reflections on how, in the light of the new world order, the politics of the debate about hierarchy may be changing. 5 Friedmann, Changing Structure , supra note 2, at 88.