International judicial lawmaking: on public authority and democratic legitimation in global governance

Over the past two decades new international courts have entered the scene of international law and existing institutions have started to play more significant roles. The present volume studies one particular dimension of their increasing practice: international judicial lawmaking. It observes that in a number of fields of international law, judicial institutions have become weighty actors and shape the law through adjudication. The contributions in this volume set out to capture this phenomenon in principle, in particular detail, and with regard to a number of specific institutions. Specifically, the volume asks howinternational judicial lawmaking score when it comes to democratic legitimation. It formulates this question as part of the broader quest for legitimate global governance and places it within the research project on the exercise of international public authority at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-29586-7
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés