The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication (Oxford Handbooks) - Tapa dura

The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication is not a simple study on the preeminent international courts in isolation. Nor does it present a linear narrative of the progressive growth and success of international adjudication. Rather, it is an ambitious project to explore how different institutional designs, political contexts, and compositions shape judicial decision-making and the ability of international adjudicative institutions to affect political outcomes. (Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, The American Journal of International Law)

Comprehensive in its coverage, innovative in its wide variety of multi-layered approaches to international adjudication, this Handbook presents a highly stimulating challenge to our current perceptions of this subject. (Georges Abi Saab)

This Handbook marks a milestone in the evolution of international courts and tribunals, transforming a field devoted to the careful documentation and analysis of individual institutions into a rich tapestry of cross-cutting themes and issues. It is an indispensable reference book for lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, and legal philosophers and is almost certain to be the precursor to a casebook and a set of web-based teaching materials. (Anne-Marie Slaughter)

This book marks a great achievement and a genuine service to the international legal profession. I have not come across any other collective volume on international adjudication as enlightening and rewarding to read. As an insider, I had never expected to learn so much about what I was doing as a judge and an arbitrator. (Bruno Simma)

The post-Cold War proliferation of international adjudicatory bodies and increase in litigation has greatly affected international law and politics. A growing number of international courts and tribunals, exercising jurisdiction over international crimes and sundry international disputes, have become, in some respects, the lynchpin of the international legal system.

The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication charts the transformations in international adjudication that took place astride the twentieth and twenty-first century, bringing together the insight of 47 prominent legal, philosophical, ethical, political, and social science scholars. Overall, the 40 contributions in this Handbook provide an original and comprehensive understanding of the various contemporary forms of international adjudication. The Handbook is divided into six parts. Part I provides an overview of the origins and evolution of international adjudicatory bodies, from the nineteenth century to the present, highlighting the dynamics driving the multiplication of international adjudicative bodies and their uneven expansion. Part II analyses the main families of international adjudicative bodies, providing a detailed study of state-to-state, criminal, human rights, regional economic, and administrative courts and tribunals, as well as arbitral tribunals and international compensation bodies. Part III lays out the theoretical approaches to international adjudication, including those of law, political science, sociology, and philosophy. Part IV examines some contemporary issues in international adjudication, including the behavior, role, and effectiveness of international judges and the political constraints that restrict their function, as well as the making of international law by international courts and tribunals, the relationship between international and domestic adjudicators, the election and selection of judges, the development of judicial ethical standards, and the financing of international courts. Part V examines key actors in international adjudication, including international judges, legal counsel, international prosecutors, and registrars. Finally, Part VI overviews select legal and procedural issues facing international adjudication, such as evidence, fact-finding and experts, jurisdiction and admissibility, the role of third parties, inherent powers, and remedies.

The Handbook is an invaluable and thought-provoking resource for scholars and students of international law and political science, as well as for legal practitioners at international courts and tribunals.