Abstract

This article critically examines the limitations of existing international regimes and declarations attempting to create a transnational normative order of human life. Drawing on the biopolitical frameworks of Agamben and Foucault, the article argues that the establishment of a global anthropolaw is necessary considering a new paradigm of biopolitics based on the implications of the rapidly developing genetic engineering technology. The article will demonstrate that the existing bioregimes are ineffective regarding the establishment of a global law regulating genetic modifications of humans. The institutionalization of a global anthropoconstitution as a particular sectoral global constitution could, however, establish such a global framework outlining the normative standards for human genetic engineering. The decontextualized global anthropolaw will need to be recontextualized by the various law-making bodies and institutions.