It is currently consensual the evaluation that the contemporary world is
politically fragmented, and that there is no country or international organization
that gives broad direction to the international affairs. This evaluation
is usually automatically transferred to the understanding of the field of
law, which is considered highly fragmented, because both the existence of
more than two hundred national legal systems, and the lack of coordination
and effectiveness of international law. If it is true that the international
political scene is fragmented, this automatic correlation with the field of
law is not justified. This is due to the fact that the law has been presenting
at the global level, since the mid-twentieth century, a clear tendency towards
integration and also to uniformization, as a result of various mechanisms
of compatibility of different national and international legal systems.