The Judicialization of International Law: A Mixed Blessing?

ISBN-13: 9780198816423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Andreas Follesdal; Geir Ulfstein

Opis

The arms of international courts are long. Follesdal and Ulftsein bring together renowned experts to ask whether the benefits of global governance, the rule of law, and protection of the rights of individuals outweigh the compromising of national sovereignty and the lack of democratic accountability.

O autorze

Andreas Follesdal is a Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oslo, as well as the Co-Director of PluriCourts, a Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order. He has been the Principal Investigator in the European Research Council Advanced Grant MultiRights, which investigated the legitimacy of the multi-level human rights judiciary. With a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University, Follesdal publishes in the field of political philosophy, mainly on issues of international political theory, globalisation, Europeanisation, Human Rights, and Socially Responsible Investing. Geir Ulfstein is a Professor of Law at the University of Oslo, the Co-Director of PluriCourts, this being the Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order, as well as the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. He has published in different areas of international law, including the law of the sea, international environmental law, international human rights and international institutional law, he is Co-chair of the International Law Association's Study Group on the 'Content and Evolution of the Rules of Interpretation', and is the Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board in Luxembourg.