Books in the Studies on International Courts and Tribunals series

Today's international criminal jurisdictions are at a critical juncture - their legitimacy cannot be taken for granted. This multidisciplinary volume investigates the challenge of attaining legitimacy by international criminal courts and tribunals. Expert authors and emerging scholars challenge received wisdom and shed new light on a range of issues.

The opaqueness of unseen actors' roles (e.g. registries, experts) in international adjudication raises questions concerning their legitimacy within dispute settlement mechanisms. This book investigates their functioning and identifies 'best practices' by examining international courts' and tribunals' institutional composition and practice.

This volume investigates the legitimacy of international trade courts and tribunals on the basis of their operation and performance. It covers a number of regional adjudicators that are highly under-studied and features visions from both academics and practitioners across several disciplines.

This volume provides interdisciplinary insights into international courts' legitimacy. Experts analyse the drivers of legitimacy of specific courts and how these might differ by the court concerned, as well as the links between legitimacy and democracy, justice and effectiveness. It will appeal to scholars, practitioners, reformers and students of ICs.

A genuinely interdisciplinary analysis of international law and courts. By employing social science methodology combined with classical case studies, this volume moves the study of international law to a new level, demonstrating the need to adopt a broader outlook drawing on empirical legal research.

International courts and tribunals play significant roles in international law and global governance, but their procedures and the outcomes they produce vary significantly. The Performance of International Courts and Tribunals presents the concept of performance and interdisciplinary accounts to describe and explain this variation.

This book examines the role and impact of human rights norms in international courts other than dedicated human rights courts. It covers a whole range of courts and jurisdictions dealing with matters of international criminal law, the law of the sea, international economic adjudication and general international law.

An increasing number of environmental cases are decided by international courts which lack specialist competence in environmental law. This raises fundamental questions of these courts' legitimacy, including who has standing to bring an environmental claim, on which legal norms is it decided and whether judges have the necessary expertise.

Exploring the role of the International Court of Justice in the re-convergence of international law, this book contends that the court's jurisprudence is transforming traditional concepts such as sovereignty, rights and jurisdiction and in so doing is leading a trend towards the reunification of international law.

A comprehensive analysis of domestic and international courts' judicial dialogue on human rights. The analysis covers Eastern Europe, Latin America, Canada, Nigeria and Malaysia, and also focuses on how the European Court of Human Rights interacts with domestic and international courts, as well as the role of NGOs promoting this dialogue.

This book focuses on a much-discussed topic in international economic law: whether trade and investment law have gone on separate ways or whether they might be coming together. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book looks at the narrow topic of convergence and divergence between trade and investment dispute settlement.

This volume investigates the legitimacy of international trade courts and tribunals on the basis of their operation and performance. It covers a number of regional adjudicators that are highly under-studied and features visions from both academics and practitioners across several disciplines.

A comprehensive analysis of domestic and international courts' judicial dialogue on human rights. The analysis covers Eastern Europe, Latin America, Canada, Nigeria and Malaysia, and also focuses on how the European Court of Human Rights interacts with domestic and international courts, as well as the role of NGOs promoting this dialogue.

Today's international criminal jurisdictions are at a critical juncture - their legitimacy cannot be taken for granted. This multidisciplinary volume investigates the challenge of attaining legitimacy by international criminal courts and tribunals. Expert authors and emerging scholars challenge received wisdom and shed new light on a range of issues.

Exploring the role of the International Court of Justice in the re-convergence of international law, this book contends that the court's jurisprudence is transforming traditional concepts such as sovereignty, rights and jurisdiction and in so doing is leading a trend towards the reunification of international law.

The opaqueness of unseen actors' roles (e.g. registries, experts) in international adjudication raises questions concerning their legitimacy within dispute settlement mechanisms. This book investigates their functioning and identifies 'best practices' by examining international courts' and tribunals' institutional composition and practice.

International courts and tribunals play significant roles in international law and global governance, but their procedures and the outcomes they produce vary significantly. The Performance of International Courts and Tribunals presents the concept of performance and interdisciplinary accounts to describe and explain this variation.

This book will be of interest for anyone interested in the legitimacy problems of domestic high courts or international courts and to those interested in public reason and political legitimacy more generally. The preface and introductory chapter introduces the topic in a way that makes it accessible to non-experts.