Systemic Judicial Authority: The “Fourth Corner” of “The Judicial Trilemma”?

Hernández, G.I.

Abstract

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 science-driven methodology to theorize the place of judicial institutions in the international legal field. Seeking to peek behind the black robes and divine the reasoning behind judicial decisions without descending into speculation and actively trying to thwart considerations of confidentiality is a fraught endeavor on which I have expressed skepticism in the past. The Judicial Trilemma admirably seeks to overcome these challenges, and I commend the authors for tackling the hard question as to whether one can truly glance behind the black robe.

Citation

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

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Nov 13, 2017
• Publication Date: Nov 13, 2017
• Deposit Date: Oct 19, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 2, 2017
• Journal: American Journal of International Law
• Print ISSN: 0002-9300
• Electronic ISSN: 2161-7953
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 111
• Pages: 349-353
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.81
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1342348