International Judicial
Lawmaking: On Public Authority
and Democratic Legitimation in Global Governance
Armin von Bogdandy, Ingo Venzke - Springer, 2012
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 significant 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
individual institutions. Specifically, the volume asks how international
judicial lawmaking scores 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 context of the research project on the
exercise of international public authority at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law.
