- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- 1 International Court Authority in a Complex World
- 2 How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts
- 3 The East African Court of Justice
- 4 The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice
- 5 The OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration
- 6 The SADC Tribunal
- 7 The Caribbean Court of Justice
- 8 The Andean Tribunal of Justice
- 9 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- 10 The Court of Justice of the European Union
- 11 The European Court of Human Rights
- 12 The International Court of Justice and Islamic Law States
- 13 The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body
- 14 The International Criminal Court
- 15 International Criminal Tribunals
- 16 International Court Authority in Question
- 17 Authority of International Courts
- 18 International Courts
- 19 International Courts’ De Facto Authority and its Justification
- 20 Jurisdiction, Politics, and Truth-Making
- 21 Power or Authority; Actions or Beliefs
- 22 Authority and International Courts
- 23 Conclusion
- Index
Conclusion
Conclusion
Context, Authority, Power
- Chapter:
- (p.435) 23 Conclusion
- Source:
- International Court Authority
- Author(s):
Karen J. Alter
Laurence R. Helfer
Mikael Rask Madsen
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This concluding chapter returns to the conjectures developed in Chapter 2, extracting insights from the book’s empirical chapters to explore how context shapes the authority of ICs. While several of the conjectures were confirmed, others were not. We focus in particular on the limited impact of IC design features, the distinctive challenges faced by international criminal tribunals, and by ICs created during the post-Cold War era. The final section revisits the distinction between IC authority and IC power. We explain why IC authority is likely to remain fragile, and we revisit our claim that authority can not only increase but also stagnate or diminish over time.
Keywords: authority, international courts, de facto authority, international court authority, post-Cold War courts, judicial institutions
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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- 1 International Court Authority in a Complex World
- 2 How Context Shapes the Authority of International Courts
- 3 The East African Court of Justice
- 4 The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice
- 5 The OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration
- 6 The SADC Tribunal
- 7 The Caribbean Court of Justice
- 8 The Andean Tribunal of Justice
- 9 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- 10 The Court of Justice of the European Union
- 11 The European Court of Human Rights
- 12 The International Court of Justice and Islamic Law States
- 13 The World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body
- 14 The International Criminal Court
- 15 International Criminal Tribunals
- 16 International Court Authority in Question
- 17 Authority of International Courts
- 18 International Courts
- 19 International Courts’ De Facto Authority and its Justification
- 20 Jurisdiction, Politics, and Truth-Making
- 21 Power or Authority; Actions or Beliefs
- 22 Authority and International Courts
- 23 Conclusion
- Index
