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E Pluribus Unum? A Divisible College?: Reflections on the International Legal Profession (2018)
Journal Article
Hernandez, G. (2018). E Pluribus Unum? A Divisible College?: Reflections on the International Legal Profession. European Journal of International Law, 29(3), 1003-1022. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chy045

Anthea Roberts’ ambitious monograph, Is International Law International?, calls on international lawyers to suspend our universalist pretensions and reflect from the perspective of different communities of international lawyers, conceived instead as... Read More about E Pluribus Unum? A Divisible College?: Reflections on the International Legal Profession.

Systemic Judicial Authority: The “Fourth Corner” of “The Judicial Trilemma”? (2017)
Journal Article
Hernández, G. (2017). Systemic Judicial Authority: The “Fourth Corner” of “The Judicial Trilemma”?. American Journal of International Law, 111, 349-353. https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.81

Jeffrey Dunoff and Mark Pollack's Judicial Trilemma is a refreshing challenge to prevailing narratives about judicial decision-making in international courts and tribunals and is part of a growing wave of scholarship deploying empirical, social scien... Read More about Systemic Judicial Authority: The “Fourth Corner” of “The Judicial Trilemma”?.

International Judicial Lawmaking (2016)
Book Chapter
Hernández, G. (2016). International Judicial Lawmaking. In C. Brölmann, & Y. Radi (Eds.), Research handbook on the theory and practice of international law-making (200-221). Edward Elgar Publishing

Interpretative Authority and the International Judiciary (2015)
Book Chapter
Hernández, G. (2015). Interpretative Authority and the International Judiciary. In A. Bianchi, D. Peat, & M. Windsor (Eds.), Interpretation in international law (166-188). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198725749.003.0008

Without a clear delineation of their competences, the indeterminacy latent in international law opens up a powerful normative function for international courts with respect to the interpretation and development of international law. This chapter seek... Read More about Interpretative Authority and the International Judiciary.

The Judicialization of International Law: Reflections on the Empirical Turn (2014)
Journal Article
Hernández, G. (2014). The Judicialization of International Law: Reflections on the Empirical Turn. European Journal of International Law, 25(3), 919-934. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chu066

The proliferation of international courts and tribunals in the last two decades has been an important new development in international law, and the three books under review are at the vanguard in substantiating the claim that the judicialization of i... Read More about The Judicialization of International Law: Reflections on the Empirical Turn.

The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function (2014)
Book
Hernández, I. (2014). The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199646630.001.0001

•Analyses how the International Court of Justice understands its role within the 'international judicial function' •Argues that the Court's contribution to the development of international law is subtle rather than progressive or radical •Explores ho... Read More about The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function.

Beyond the Control Paradigm? International Responsibility and the European Union (2013)
Journal Article
Hernández, G. (online). Beyond the Control Paradigm? International Responsibility and the European Union. The Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies, 643-668. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474200349.ch-022

From the perspective of public international law, the legal personality of the European Union (EU) carries with it the possibility for it to exercise rights and to bear obligations on the international plane. Its quasi-federal structure, however, req... Read More about Beyond the Control Paradigm? International Responsibility and the European Union.

A Reluctant Guardian: The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community' (2013)
Journal Article
Hernández, G. (2013). A Reluctant Guardian: The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community'. British Yearbook of International Law, 83(1), 13-60. https://doi.org/10.1093/bybil/brt003

The concept of ‘international community’, nebulously defined at best, has the potential to generate specific and far-reaching legal effects if understood in a certain manner. In this article, the author asserts that the understanding of the judicial... Read More about A Reluctant Guardian: The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community'.