Transplanting International Courts - The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice

Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice provides a deep, systematic investigation of the most active and successful transplant of the European Court of Justice. The Andean Tribunal is effective by any plausible definition of the term, but only in the domain of intellectual property law.

List of contents

• Part I: Supranational Legal Transplants


• 1: Lessons from the Andean Tribunal of Justice: Thirty Years as a Legal Transplant


• 2: Transplanting the European Court of Justice to the Andes


• Part II: Law and Politics in the Andean Tribunal of Justice


• 3: The Andean Tribunal of Justice and its Interlocutors: Understanding Litigation Patterns in the Andean Community


• 4: The Divergent Jurisprudential Paths of the Andean Tribunal of Justice and the European Court of Justice


• 5: Islands of Effective International Adjudication: Constructing an Intellectual Property Rule of Law in the Andean Community


• 6: The Judicialization of Andean Politics: Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Economic Hard Times


• 7: The Authority of the Andean Tribunal of Justice in a Time of Regional Political Crisis


• Part III: Reconsidering International Adjudication in Europe in Light of the Andean Experience


• 8: Nature or Nurture? Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Tribunal of Justice


• 9: Jurist Advocacy Movements in Europe and the Andes


• 10: Reconsidering What Makes International Courts Effective

About the author

Karen J. Alter, is a Professor of Political Science and Law at Northwestern University, permanent visiting professor at the iCourts Center for Excellence, and co-director Research Group on Global Capitalism and Law. Winner of the Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim fellow, Alter is author of the award-winning The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights (Princeton University Press, 2014), The European Courts Political Power (OUP, 2009) and Establishing the Supremacy of European Law (OUP, 2001) and more than forty-five articles and book chapters on international law. Alter is member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, and serves on the editorial boards of the journals International Organization, the American Journal of International Law, International Studies Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and the Journal of International Dispute Settlement.

Laurence R. Helfer is the Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law, co-director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, and a Senior Fellow with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He also serves as a Permanent Visiting Professor at the iCourts: Center of Excellence for International Courts at the University of Copenhagen, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2014. Professor Helfer has coauthored three books and more than seventy scholarly articles on his diverse research interests relating to the interdisciplinary analysis of international laws and institutions, which include international courts and tribunals, treaty design, international human rights, and international intellectual property law. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of World Intellectual Property.

Summary

Transplanting International Courts: The Law and Politics of the Andean Tribunal of Justice provides a deep, systematic investigation of the most active and successful transplant of the European Court of Justice. The Andean Tribunal is effective by any plausible definition of the term, but only in the domain of intellectual property law. Alter and Helfer explain how the Andean Tribunal established its legal authority within and beyond this intellectual property island, and how Andean judges have navigated moments of both transnational political consensus and political contestation over the goals and objectives of regional economic integration. By letting member states set the pace and scope of Andean integration, by condemning unequivocal violations of Andean rules, and by allowing for the coexistence of national legislation and supranational authority, the Tribunal has retained its fidelity to Andean law while building relationships with nationally-based administrative agencies, lawyers, and judges. Yet the Tribunals circumspect and formalist approach means that, unlike in Europe, community law is not an engine of integration. The Tribunals strategy has also limited its influence within the Andean legal system.

The authors also revisit their own path-breaking scholarship on the effectiveness of international adjudication. Alter and Helfer argue that the European Court of Justice benefitted in underappreciated ways from the support of transnational jurist advocacy movements that are absent or poorly organized in the Andes and elsewhere in the world. The Andean Tribunals longevity despite these and other challenges offers guidance for international courts in other developing country contexts. Moreover, given that the Andean Community has weathered member state withdrawals and threats of exit, major economic and political crises, and the retrenchment of core policies such as the common external tariff, the Andean experience offers timely and important lessons for European international courts.

Additional text

Transplanting International Courts - a must-read for anyone who works with international courts challenges many existing presumptions and rethinks existing models for understanding supranational adjudication. Alter and Helfer's comparative analysis of the Andean Tribunal of Justice across several decades of an evolving and volatile political landscape is particularly valuable for those engaged in promoting human rights in the Global South, who will be interested in the ATJ's insistence that economic integration also respect fundamental rights. A vital contribution to the under-researched topic of supranational bodies in the developing world, this book re-conceptualizes the operation of all international courts.

Product details

• Authors: Karen J Alter, Karen J. Alter, Karen J. (Professor of Political Science an Alter, Karen J. (Professor of Political Science and Law Alter, Karen J. Helfer Alter, Laurence R Helfer, Laurence R. Helfer, Laurence R. (Harry R. Chadwick Sr. Professor of Law Helfer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2017
• EAN: 9780199680788
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968078-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: International Courts and Tribunals Series; International Courts and Tribu
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law