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Transplanting International Courts 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 Tribunal's circumspect and formalist approach means that, unlike in Europe, Community law is not an engine of integration. The Tribunal's strategy has also limited its influence within the Andean legal system. Transplanting International Courts also revists the authors' 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 jurist advocacy movements that are absent or poorly organized in the Andes and elsewhere in the world. The Andean Tribunal's 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 Europe's international courts.
Sommario
- 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
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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 co-editor of
International Court Authority with Laurence R. Helfer and Mikael Rask Madsen (OUP, 2018). She 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). Alter is member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Committee of ASIL, 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 is co-editor of
International Court Authority with Karen J. Alter and Mikael Rask Madsen (OUP, 2018). He has co-authored three books, and more than seventy scholarly articles on his diverse research interests relating to the interdisciplinary analysis of international laws and institutions. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the
American Journal of International Law and the
Journal of World Intellectual Property.
Riassunto
Transplanting International Courts provides a systematic investigation of the most active and successful transplant of the European Court of Justice. Alter and Helfer show how the Andean experience offers timely and important lessons for Europe's international courts, as well as those in other developing regions.
Testo aggiuntivo
Whatever your interests in this field, whatever transnational system you may be researching or teaching, the rich insights of this book on how to think of such will upgrade your own analytical (and normative) toolkit. As a side benefit, it is very well written - a good read.
