Sociological Perspectives on International Tribunals
Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law
The workshop will focus on sociological aspects of practices by international tribunals. Speakers will discuss diverse socio-cultural issues involved in the operation and impact of international tribunals as: the interactions between formal procedural rules and informal norms; the formal and social functions of tribunals; the symbolic aspects of tribunals’ proceedings and their decisions; the legal cultures (national and international ones) of international adjudication; the socio-cultural factors influencing the diffusion of procedural rules across international tribunals; and the production of knowledge and cognitive aspects of the work of such tribunals.
10:00 | Welcome and Greetings Hélène Ruiz Fabri and Moshe Hirsch |
10:15 | Underlying Interactions between Tribunals & International Law Chair: Sungjoon Cho
- Hélène Ruiz Fabri, ‘Outline of a Sociological Theory of International Procedural Law’
- Fuad Zarbiyev, ‘Extension du domaine de la lutte: A sociological account of convergence and discorde in international case law’
- Andrew Lang, 'Global markets, local truths?: 'good regulatory practices' initiatives and the performance of markets in global governance'
- Geoff Gordon, ‘Contradiction & the Court: Heterodox methods for analyses applied to the Iran-US case at the ICJ’
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12:00 | Lunch |
13:30 | Formal and Informal Functions Chair: Mikael Madsen
- Andrea Bianchi, ‘International judgments as holy writs’
- Allan F. Tatham, ‘Punching Above its Weight’: Extra-forum Practices of the EFTA Court as a Means to Reinforce its International Standing’
- Thilo Marauhn, ‘Contentious Cases in Disguise: ICJ Advisory Opinions as Drivers of Change’
- Caroline Foster, ‘Making Representations: Societal Opinion in International Courts and Tribunals’
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15:15 | Coffee break |
15:45 | Socialization, Identity and Legitimacy Chair: Hélène Ruiz Fabri
- Edouard Fromageau, ‘The International Judges and the Others: A Comparative Study of Social Identities of Human Rights Adjudicators’
- Mikael Madsen, ‘Ruling the world: Sociology of the International Judiciary’
- Joshua Paine, ‘The Functions of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body’
- Ksenia Polonskaya, ‘The Role of Media in Constructing Sociological Legitimacy of International Arbitration: Historical Perspective: The View From the Newspapers’’
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9:00 | Framing, Interpretation and Cognitive Biases Chair: Andrew Lang
- Ingo Venzke, ‘An Extended Critique of International Adjudication [or The Path of International Law in Hindsight]’
- Moshe Hirsch, ‘A New Phase in the Relationship between Investment Tribunals and International Human Rights Law?’
- Mihreteab Taye, ‘Human Rights, the Rule of Law and the East African Court of Justice: Lawyers and the Emergence of a Weak Regional Field’
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10:30 | Coffee break |
11:00 | Judicial Practices and Rituals Chair: Ron Levi
- Ezgi Yildiz, ‘Enduring Practices in Changing Circumstances: A Comparison of the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’
- Jeffrey Dunoff & Mark Pollack, ‘The Shape of judgement’
- Vincent Dalpé, ‘The Mass Atrocity Prosecution Ritual’
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12:45 | Lunch |
14:15 | Reconstructing Images and Historical Events Chair: Moshe Hirsch
- Sungjoon Cho & Jürgen Kurtz, ‘International Economic Law's Governance Trauma
- Hisashi Harata, ‘Reconstructing International Commercial Arbitration in the 1920’s: Multiple Actors in a Transnational Field’
- Ron Levi, ‘The mass media, international courts and the collective memory of the Holocaust’
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16:00 | Concluding Remarks and Farewell Hélène Ruiz Fabri |