Legitimacy and international courts edited by Harlan Grant Cohen, Andreas Follesdal, Nienke Grossman, and Geir Ulfstein

Includes papers presented at the Symposium on Legitimacy and International Courts, September 18-19, 2014, at the University of Baltimore, sponsored by the University of Baltimore School of Law, the American Society of International Law, and PluriCourts of the University of Oslo.

Introduction / Harlan Grant Cohen, Andreas Follesdal, Nienke Grossman, and Geir Ulfstein -- Solomonic judgments and the legitimacy of the International Court of Justice / Nienke Grossman -- The global-local dilemma and the ICC's legitimacy / Margaret de Guzman -- Justice as legitimacy in the European Court of Human Rights / Molly Land -- Legitimacy and jurisdictional overlap : the ICC and the Inter-American Court in Colombia / Alexandra Huneeus -- The legitimacy of the European Court of Justice : normative debates and empirical evidence / Mark Pollack -- The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea : seeking the legitimacy of state consent / Anastasia Telesetsky -- Who decides matters : the legitimacy capital of WTO adjudicators versus ICSID arbitrators / Joost Pauwelyn -- The legitimacy of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes / Andrea Bjorklund -- The human rights treaty bodies and legitimacy challenges / Geir Ulfstein -- Constitutionalization, not democratization : how to assess the legitimacy of international courts / Andreas Follesdal -- Democracy, justice and the legitimacy of international courts / Mortimer Sellers -- Stronger together? : legitimacy and effectiveness of international courts as mutually reinforcing or undermining notions / Yuval Shany.

Includes bibliographical references and index.