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K. J. Alter, L. R. Helfer and M. R. Madsen (eds.), International Court Authority, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, £80.00, ISBN 978-0-1987-9558-2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2020

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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 527 - 531
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2 On the concept of authority in international law see Çali, supra note 1.

3 Alter, K. J, Helfer, L. R and Madsen, M. R (eds.), International Court Authority (2018), 14Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., at 24.

5 Ibid., at 28 (the agnosticism as to the why is explained for the purpose of creating a metric that can be used to compare authority across ICs).

6 Ibid., at 29.

7 Ibid.

8 Several indicators of whether an IC has de facto authority are outlined in Ch. 2 (in particular, at 34–6).

9 Ibid., at 31–3.

10 This is when the conjunctive standard of recognition and meaningful action standard is met by a wider field of both legal (e.g., bar associations, law firms, and scholars) and non-legal actors (e.g., civil society groups).

11 This is when the standard is met solely by the litigants.

12 L. Vinjamuri, ‘The International Criminal Court’, in Alter, Helfer and Madsen, supra note 3, at 331.

13 However, it is also acknowledged that judges themselves may play a role in influencing these contexts (see Alter, Helfer and Madsen, ibid., at 49–50).

14 On the idea of international law as a science see the recent contributions: Orford, A, ‘Scientific Reason and the Discipline of International Law’, in d’Aspremont, Jet al. (eds.), International Law as a Profession (2017), 93CrossRefGoogle Scholar; J. d’Aspremont, ‘The Professionalisation of International Law’, ibid., at 19.

15 Orford, ibid.

16 d’Aspremont, supra note 14.

17 A. Huneeus, ‘The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’, in Alter, Helfer and Madsen, supra note 3, at 219.

18 E. T. Achiume, ‘The SADC Tribunal’, in Alter, Helfer and Madsen, ibid., at 124.

19 Ibid., at 125.

20 Ibid., at 126.

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22 Mainly in response to Ian Hurd’s contribution in Ch. 22.

23 Alter, Helfer and Madsen, supra note 3, at 369.

24 M. Weber, Economy and Society (1978), as referenced in Alter, Helfer and Madsen, ibid., at 369.

25 Von Bogdandy and Venzke mention the element of procedural law-making and procedural cross-fertilization, and notice that developments in this area may be helpful for the exercise of public authority of ICTs in von Bogdandy, A and Venzke, I, ‘The Spell of Precedents: Lawmaking by International Courts and Tribunals’, in Romano, C. P. Ret al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication (2013), 504Google Scholar.

26 Alter, Helfer and Madsen, supra note 3, at 3.

27 M. Zürn, ‘International Courts’, in Alter, Helfer and Madsen, ibid., at 389.

28 Ibid., at 390.

29 See Hernández, G. I, ‘Judicialization of International Law: Reflections on the Empirical Turn’, (2014) 25 EJIL 919CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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31 See Brower, C. N and Litwin, D, ‘Navigating the Judicialization of International Law in Troubled Waters: Some Reflections on a Generation of International Lawyers’, (2019) 37 Berkeley Journal of International Law 171Google Scholar.

32 See also Hernández, supra note 29.

33 Alter, Helfer and Madsen, supra note 3, at 26.

34 Ibid., at 26–7.

35 Ibid., at 374.