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Robert Howse, Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, Geir Ulfstein, Michelle Q. Zang, (Eds.), The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals

Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 9781108424479

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The issue of the legitimacy of international law, of its institutions, and of its dispute settlement systems has always been paramount to international law scholars.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For references see. Meyer (2009); Yasuaki (2010); Wolfrum and Röben (2009).

  2. 2.

    Specifically on the legitimacy of international tribunals see von Bogdandy (2013); Dothan (2013).

  3. 3.

    Among others see, also for further bibliographical references, Bonzon (2014); Cass (2005).

  4. 4.

    Voeten (2017).

  5. 5.

    Pauwelyn and Hamilton (2018).

  6. 6.

    On this see Weiler (2018).

  7. 7.

    The volume examines 11 different trade adjudication bodies, 9 international and 2 domestic, some of which had previously received little attention in doctrine: the WTO adjudicating bodies, the EU Court of justice, the EFTA Court, the US Court of international trade, the federal Courts of Canada, MERCOSUR, the Andean Court of justice, the Economic Court of the CIS, the COMESA Court of Justice, the WAEMU Court of Justice, the ASEAN trade dispute settlement mechanism.

  8. 8.

    These are: formal independence, judicial interaction, access to trade tribunals, justice in the WTO context.

  9. 9.

    See page 3 of the reviewed book. Emphasis added.

  10. 10.

    Treves (2009). Franck proposes determinacy, symbolic validation, coherence and adherence as those indicators; see Franck (1995), pp. 30 ff.

  11. 11.

    In the same sense see also Grossman et al. (2018), which adopt a less sectorial scope than the volume reviewed here.

  12. 12.

    Roberts (2017a, b); El Boudouhi (2017), pp. 981 ff.

  13. 13.

    Arcari and Palchetti (2018).

  14. 14.

    See Koskenniemi (2001).

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  2. Faculty of Law, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Markus Krajewski

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    Christian J. Tams

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Ruotolo, G.M. (2019). Robert Howse, Hélène Ruiz-Fabri, Geir Ulfstein, Michelle Q. Zang, (Eds.), The Legitimacy of International Trade Courts and Tribunals. In: Bungenberg, M., Krajewski, M., Tams, C.J., Terhechte, J.P., Ziegler, A.R. (eds) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2019. European Yearbook of International Economic Law, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/8165_2019_37

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