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Author:   Karen J. Alter (Professor of Political Science and Law, Northwestern University) ,  Laurence R. Helfer (Harry R. Chadwick Sr. Professor of Law, Duke University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.662kg
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9780199680788

ISBN 10:   0199680787
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   16 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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

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Through their exploration of the law, politics, and history of the Andean Tribunal, Alter and Helfer unsettle and recast many accepted theories about how international courts construct their power.

Alter and Helfer's story of the Andean Tribunal reminds me of my own fascination with the European Court of Justice and the robustness with which since the 1960s it forged its doctrines of direct effect and supremacy of EC law onto the domestic legal systems of the leading Western European countries. A couple of decades later, the member states of the Andean Community transplanted the ECJs design features and doctrines into their region by creating the ATJ. Alter and Helfer tell us how this new-style international court, despite moving in a political and economic environment so different from that of its European role model, was able to establish for itself a distinct role. The authors are right in calling the ATJ the most successful example of an international court in a developing country context and they make their point in a clear, lively and superbly researched way. Bruno Simma, former Judge at the International Court of Justice, Member of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal The European Union's integration through law experiment has generated many attempts to transplant it to other regions. The Andean Tribunal is the most successful of these attempts. It is one of the most active international judicial bodies, yet with a much more limited scope of cases than the European Court of Justice. In this book, Alter and Helfer, two leading scholars of judicial integration, explain the successes and pitfalls of judicial transplants. The authors' powerful and convincing analysis highlights why the Andean Tribunal may provide the best example to understand both the potential and the limits of international courts to promote regional integration. Miguel Poiares Maduro, former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union Through their exploration of the law, politics, and history of the Andean Tribunal, Alter and Helfer unsettle and recast many accepted theories about how international courts construct their power. The tale of this bustling but little-known tribunal forces us to rethink what we thought we knew about international courts, most of it gained from the European experience. The book is a singular contribution to the study of Latin American politics. It challenges us to take seriously the role of international courts in shaping economic behavior at the domestic and transnational level. Read from this perspective, the book is poised to open a rich new line of socio-legal inquiry in Latin America and other developing regions. Alexandra Huneeus, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin ransplanting 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. James Cavallaro, Commissioner and President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Transplanting International Courtsa must-read for anyone who works with international courtschallenges many existing presumptions and rethinks existing models for understanding supranational adjudication. Alter and Helfers 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 ATJs 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. James Cavallaro, Commissioner and President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights The European Unions integration through law experiment has generated many attempts to transplant it to other regions. The Andean Tribunal is the most successful of these attempts. It is one of the most active international judicial bodies, yet with a much more limited scope of cases than the European Court of Justice. In this book, Alter and Helfer, two leading scholars of judicial integration, explain the successes and pitfalls of judicial transplants. The authors powerful and convincing analysis highlights why the Andean Tribunal may provide the best example to understand both the potential and the limits of international courts to promote regional integration. Miguel Poiares Maduro, former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union

Author Information

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.

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