Introduction Marlene Wind; 1. Missing in action? The rare voice of international courts in domestic politics Lisa Conant; Part I: 2. What can financial markets tell us about international courts and deterrence? Krzysztof Pelc and Jeffrey Kucik; 3. The Strasbourg Court and domestic judicial politics David Kosar; 4. It's a good idea … isn't it? The impact of complementarity at the international criminal court on domestic law, politics and perceptions of sovereignty Steven Freeland; 5. Rights-protecting iCourts: the curious case of the OP-ICESCR Benjamin Perryman; 6. Re-assembling the French state via human rights: between human rights internationalism and political sovereignism Mikael Rask Madsen; 7. Impact through trust: the CJEU as a trust-enhancing institution Juan A. Mayoral; Part II: 8. Ideology and international human rights commitments in post-communist regimes: the cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia Katarína Šipulová, Jozef Janovský and Hubert Smekal; 9. Escalation and interaction: international courts and domestic politics in the law of state immunity Philippa Webb; 10. National parliaments: obstacles or aid to the impact of international human rights bodies? Jasper Krommendijk; 11. The European Court of Human Rights and Swiss politics: how does the Swiss judge fit in? Odile Ammann; 12. The use of international jurisprudence by Israel's Supreme Court Yaël Ronen; 13. Laggards or pioneers? When Scandinavian avant-garde judges don't cite international case law: a methodological framework Marlene Wind.