This article explains the rapid proliveration in international courts first in the post WWII and then the post Cold War era. It examines the larger international judicial complex, showing how developments in one region and domain affect developments in similar and distant regimes. Situating individual developments into their larger context, and showing how change occurs incrementally and slowly over time, allows one to see developments in economic, human rights and war crimes systems as part of a longer term evolutionary process of the creation of international judicial authority. Evolution is not the same as teleology; we see that some international courts develop and chagne while others stay at in in their same role and with the same low level of activity for long periods of time. The evolutionary approach of this article suggests that branding judicial authority evolves through practice and takes time, and that the overall international judicial context and developments in parallel institutions shape the development of individual ICs.

Last modified

• 01/03/2019

Creator

• Karen J. Alter

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2HX9W

Alternate Identifier

• 11-002

Keyword

• evolving
• buffett

Date created

• 2011

Resource type

• Research Paper

Rights statement

• In Copyright