Courts Crossing Borders

by Volcansek, Mary L.; Stack, John F., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781594600555
• ISBN10: 1594600554
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-12
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Summary

Legal issues that have traditionally been treated as domestic are in-creasingly governed by transnational law and numerous obscure tri-bunals. This book acquaints students of law and politics with the largely unrecognized authority of transnational legal systems and the ways boundaries of national sovereignty are being eroded in the 21st century. The editors have skillfully organized their collection around issues dealing with both human rights and issues of trade and used a comparative approach to analyze the many court decisions, treaties, and legal agreements that affect national sovereignty. Included subject areas are: Courts and Regional Trade Agreements, Dispute Resolution under NAFTA, and Universal Criminal Jurisdiction.

Author Biography

Mary L. Volcansek is Dean of the AddRan College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a professor of political science at Texas Christian University.John F. Stack, Jr. is a professor of political science and the Director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Chapter 1 Courts Crossing Borders, John F. Stack, Jr., Mary L. Volcansek	3	(8)
Chapter 2 Judicialization and Sovereignty, Mary L. Volcansek, John F. Stack, Jr.	11	(12)
Sovereignty	12	(3)
Judicialization of Transnational Politics	15	(2)
Transnational Courts	17	(6)
Chapter 3 Courts and Regional Trade Agreements, Mary L. Volcansek	23	(20)
Crossing Borders	24	(2)
Institutionalization	26	(3)
Rise of Dispute Settlement Systems	29	(4)
Cases of Economic Dispute Regulation	33	(6)
Courts, Institutionalization, and Trade	39	(4)
Chapter 4 Sovereignty in Europe: The European Court of Justice and the Creation of a European Political Community, Miguel Poiares Maduro	43	(20)
Sovereignty in Europe: Constitutionalization and Europeanization	44	(5)
Constitutionalization	44	(4)
Europeanization	48	(1)
Becoming Sovereign: How Was It Possible?	49	(5)
Competitive Sovereignty	54	(4)
The Limits of Judicial Constitutionalization	58	(5)
Judicial Preferences	59	(1)
The Consequences of Pluralism	59	(2)
The Nature of the Challenge to Sovereignty	61	(2)
Chapter 5 Natural, Economic, and Political Borders: Trade and Environmental Protection Before the European Court of Justice, Joseph Jupille	63	(22)
Nature, Economy, and Polity: The Complexity of Borders	64	(1)
Courts Crossing Borders in the European Union	65	(2)
Neofunctionalism	66	(1)
Intergovernmentalism	67	(1)
The Evidence	67	(16)
Aggregate Evidence	67	(6)
Doctrinal Analysis	73	(10)
Conclusion	83	(2)
Chapter 6 How Rights Evolve: The Case of Non-Discrimination in the European Court of Human Rights, Doris Marie Provine	85	(20)
The European Court of Human Rights	86	(2)
Judges on Rights	88	(3)
The Institutional Setting for European Human Rights	91	(4)
Tailoring Demand to the Court's Resources	95	(1)
The Parameters of Judicial Concern	95	(3)
How Article 14 Jurisprudence Grows	98	(4)
Conclusion	102	(3)
Chapter 7 Constructing Human Rights in the Americas: Institutional Development and Practice in the New World, John F. Stack, Jr.	105	(32)
Constructing a Human Rights Regime	106	(3)
American Hegemony and Cold War Anticommunism	109	(3)
The Inter-American Commission: Instrumental Adaptation and Strategic Bargaining	112	(4)
The Inter-American Court: Constructing Human Rights	116	(13)
Advisory Jurisdiction	118	(5)
Contentious Jurisdiction	123	(6)
"Promises to Keep": The Quest for Institutionalization and Habitualization in the Inter-American System	129	(8)
Chapter 8 Dispute Resolution under NAFTA and the Emergence of Transnational Quasi-Courts, David M. O'Brien	137	(22)
An Overview of NAFTA's Dispute Resolution System	139	(2)
Quasi-Courts and Dispute Resolution under Chapter 19 of NAFTA	141	(7)
Jurisdiction	142	(1)
Selection and Composition of Binational Panels	143	(1)
Dispute Resolution Process	144	(3)
Appeals: The Extraordinary Challenge Procedure	147	(1)
Disputes and Decisions under Chapter 19 of NAFTA	148	(9)
Conclusion	157	(2)
Chapter 9 Sovereignty, Transnational Constraints, and Universal Criminal Jurisdiction, Donald W. Jackson	159	(24)
Meanings of Sovereignty	160	(4)
Transnational Constraints: The British Experience	164	(4)
Universal Criminal Jurisdiction	168	(5)
Precedents from the Past Relative to Universal Jurisdiction	169	(4)
Contemporary Developments	173	(6)
Ad Hoc Tribunals	174	(1)
The Pinochet Case	174	(1)
The Hissène Habré Case	175	(1)
The Belgian Example	176	(2)
Prospects: The International Criminal Court	178	(1)
Conclusion: Sovereignty, Globalization, and the Princeton Principles	179	(4)
Chapter 10 Bringing Her Out of the Shadows: An Empirical Analysis of Sentences in Rape Cases before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Kimi King, James Meernick	183	(30)
International Gender Justice for All? Armed Conflict and Mass Rape	186	(6)
Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia: The Establishment of the ICTY Statute and Tribunal	192	(5)
Doing Justice: Theory, Data and Method	197	(14)
Dependent Variable: Sentence	199	(1)
Command and Control Power	200	(1)
The ICTY Articles and Rape	201	(3)
Total Number of Counts Charged	204	(1)
Discussion	204	(7)
Conclusion	211	(2)
Bibliography	213	(20)
List of Contributors	233	(4)
Table of Cases	237	(6)
Index	243