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Identity and Diversity on the International Bench: Who is the Judge?

Freya Baetens

Abstract

International courts and tribunals hold the power to decide on questions involving sovereignty over territory, grave human rights violations, international crimes, or millions of euros’ worth of economic interests. Judges and arbitrators are the ‘faces’ and arguably the drivers of international adjudication—yet certain groups tend to be overrepresented on international benches, while others remain underrepresented.

Keywords: judges, arbitrators, international adjudication, international benches, identity, diversity, international courts, international tribunals, judicial process, international law, international dispute settlement

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2020 Print ISBN-13: 9780198870753
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2021 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198870753.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Freya Baetens, editor
Professor of Public International Law, University of Oslo

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Praise for Identity and Diversity on the International Bench

Foreword

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

1 Identity and Diversity on the International Bench

Freya Baetens*

Part I Towards the International Bench

2 The Smurfette Principle

Liesbeth Lijnzaad

3 Generating Incentives to Appoint Women to the International Bench

Rolf Einar Fife

4 Justifications for the Promotion of Religious Diversity on the International Bench

David M Bigge*

5 Judges Ad Hoc at the International Court of Justice

Paolo Palchetti

6 The Party-Appointment Process

Catherine Drummond*

7 African Women’s Paths to the International Bench

Rebecca Emiene Badejogbin*

8 Analysing Appointments in International Arbitration

Monika Prusinowska

9 Legitimacy of Investor-State Arbitration

Jamal Seifi*

10 Fifty Years of Women at the European Court of Human Rights

Helen Keller, Corina Heri, and Myriam Christ*

Part II On the International Bench

11 The Identity Conundrum

Catharine Titi

12 Judicial Education and International Courts

SI Strong

13 Additional Opinions and Judicial Diversity at the International Court of Justice

Hemi Mistry*

14 Citing Religious Texts in Individual Opinions to Judgments of the International Court of Justice

Mubarak Waseem*

15 A Question of Impartiality

Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi and Laura Létourneau-Tremblay*

16 Adjudicating International Trade Cases in the World Trade Organization

Valerie Hughes

17 The Contribution of Women Judges and Prosecutors to the Development of International Criminal Law

Teresa Doherty

18 The Contribution of Female Judges to the Victim Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court

Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo

19 Judicial Legal Culture and Victim Procedural Status at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo

20 Appearing Before and Sitting With Female Adjudicators

James Crawford*

Part III Beyond the International Bench

21 Diversity and Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization’s Bench

Cosette D Creamer and Zuzanna Godzimirska

22 Ethnicity, Religion, and Diversity at the International Criminal Court

Solomy Balungi Bossa and Gilles Landry Dossan

23 The Significance of Religious Diversity in International Human Rights Adjudication

Kristen Hessler

24 Diversity on the Bench of the European Court of Human Rights

Angelika Nußberger and Freya Baetens*

25 Peru’s ‘Intercultural Law’ Proposal

Clara María López Rodríguez

26 Keeping Gender on the Agenda for International Benches

J Jarpa Dawuni

Epilogue

Janet M Nosworthy

End Matter

Index