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Systemic Issues – Selected Bibliography

Abi-Saab, Georges, Fragmentation or Unification: Some Concluding Remarks, 31 New YorkUniversityJournal of International Law & Politics 919 (1999).

Alford, Roger, Federal Courts, International Tribunals, and the Continuum of Deference, 43 Virginia Journal of International Law Association675 (Spring 2003).

Amerasinghe, Chittharanjan F., Jurisdiction of International Tribunals (The Hague; New York: Kluwer Law International, 2003).

Baudenbacher, Carl, Judicial Globalization: New Development or Old Wine in New Bottles? 38 Texas International Law Journal 505 (2003).

—Judicialization and Globalization of the Judiciary: Foreword, 38 Texas International Law Journal 197 (2003).

Berman, Paul Schiff, The Globalization of Jurisdiction, 151 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 311 (2002).

Buergenthal, Thomas, Proliferation of International Courts and Tribunals: Is it Good or Bad, 14 Leiden Journal of International Law 267-275 (2001).

Burke-White, William W., Regionalization of International Criminal Law Enforcement: A Preliminary Exploration, 38 Texas International Law Journal 729 (Summer 2003).

—A Community of Courts: Toward a System of International Criminal Law Enforcement, 24 Michigan Journal of International Law 1 (Fall 2002).

Carrozza, Paolo G., Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law, 97 American Journal of International Law 38 (January 2003).

Charney, Jonathan I., The Impact on the International Legal System of the Growth of International Courts and Tribunals, 31 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 697 (1999).

Cheng, B., General Principles of Law: as Applied by International Courts and Tribunals (London: Stevens, 1953).

Dupuy, Pierre-Marie, The Danger of Fragmentation or Unification of the International Legal System and the International Court of Justice, 31 New York University School of Law Journal of International Law & Politics 791 (1999);

Helfer, Laurence R., Forum Shopping for Human Rights, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 285 (1999).

Hudson, Manley, International Courts and Tribunals: Past and Future (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Brookings Institution, 1944).

Ingadottir, Thordis, The Cost of International Criminal Justice, Paying for Essentials: A Policy Paper Series (Center on International Cooperation, New YorkUniversity).

—The EEA Agreement and Homogeneous Jurisprudence: The Two Pillar Role Given to the EFTA Court and the Court of Justice of the European Communities, 2 Yearbook of International Law (2001).

International Law Commission, Report of the Study Group on Fragmentation of International Law: Difficulties arising from the Diversification and Expansion of International Law (International Law Commission, 18 July 2003). (A/CN.4/L.644).

Jacobs, Francis G., Judicial Dialogue and the Cross-fertilization of Legal Systems: The European Court of Justice, 38 Texas International Law Journal 547 (2003).

Lauterpacht, E., Aspects of the Administration of International Justice (Cambridge: Grotius, 1991).

Miller, Nathan, An International Jurisprudence? The Operation of Precedent Across International Courts and Tribunals, 15 Leiden Journal of International Law (2002).

Kingsbury, Benedict, Is the Proliferation of International Courts and Tribunals a Systemic Problem? 31 New YorkUniversityJournal of International Law and Politics 679 (1999).

Koch, Charles H., Envisioning a Global Legal Culture, 25 Michigan Journal of International Law 1 (2003).

Koskenniemi, Martti, Fragmentation of International Law: Topic (a): The Function and Scope of the Lex Specialis Rule and the Question of ‘Self-Contained Regimes’: An Outline, (International Law Commission, Study Group on Fragmentation, 2003). Available at:

Martinez, Jenny, Towards an International Judicial System, 56 Stanford Law Review 429 (2003).

Morgan, Donald, Emerging Fora for International Litigation (Part 1): Implications on the Proliferation of International Courts and Tribunals: The Example of the Southern Bluefin Tuna Cases, 43 Harvard International Law Journal 541 (Summer 2002).

Note, The International Judicial Dialogue: When Domestic Constitutional Courts Join the Conversation, 114 Harvard Law Review 2049 (2001).

Pinto, Monica, Fragmentation or Unification Among International Institutions: Human Rights Tribunals, 31 New YorkUniversityJournal of International Law & Politics 833 (1999).

Radlauer, Charles B., A Clash of Power and Jurisdiction: The United States Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice, 11 St. Thomas Law Review 489 (Spring 1999).

Romano, Cesare. The Proliferation of International Courts and Tribunals: Piecing Together the Puzzle, 31 New YorkUniversity Journal of International Law & Politics (1999).

—The Southern Bluefin Tuna Dispute: Hints of a World to Come … Like It or Not, 32 Ocean Development and International Law 377 (2001).

Sands, Philippe, Treaty, Custom and the Cross-fertilization of International Law, 1 Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal 85 (1998).

—Ruth Mackenzie, and Yuval Shany, Manual on International Courts and Tribunals (London: Butterworths, 1999).

Schragger C., Richard, The Limits of Localism, 100 Michigan Law Review 371 (2001).

Shany, Yuval, Competing Jurisdictions (OxfordUniversity Press, 2003).

Shelton, Dinah (ed.), Commitment and Compliance: The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System (New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2000).

Slaughter, Anne-Marie, A Global Community of Courts, 44 Harvard International Law Journal 191 (Winter 2003).

—Judicial Globalization, 40 Virginia Journal of International Law 1103 (2000).

—Human Rights International Law Symposium: A Typology of Transjudicial Communication, 29 University of Richmond Law Review 99 (Winter 1994).

Spelliscy, Shane, The Proliferation of International Tribunals: A Chink in the
Armor, 40 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 143 (2001).

Treves, Tullio, Conflicts between the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice, 31 New York University Journal of International Law 809 (1999).

Valencia-Ospina, Eduardo, The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals: A Practitioners’ Journal (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002).

VecchioDel, Angela, Giurisdizione Internazionale e Globalizzazione (Giuffre, 1992).

Wetzel, Joseph R., Improving Fundamental Rights Protection in the European Union: Resolving the Conflict and Confusion between the Luxembourg and Strasbourg Courts, 71 Fordham Law Review 2823 (2003).