Este reporte fue elaborado por Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga.
El centro iCourts de
la Danish National Research Foundation emitió un convocatoria para recibir propuestas académicas con motive de la
conferencia “International Courts and
National Courts, Politics and Society” que se llevará a cabo en la ciudad
de Copenhague, Dinamarca, los días 11 y 12 de septiembre de 2014. Esta es la
convocatoria:
Since the establishment of the first permanent
international court in 1922, states have created more than 25 international
judicial bodies. The trend toward international judicialization has accelerated
after the end of the Cold War. States have established a cascade of
international courts and tribunals, the mandates of which go well beyond peace
and arbitration to cover issues as diverse as human rights, international
criminal law, trade and investment. And new courts are being called for in
issue-areas where they do not yet exist, such as the regulation of climate
change or transnational corporate wrongdoing. Moreover, in some areas, courts
have arguably managed to expand their authority beyond their original mandates,
and engage not only in adjudicating, interpreting and monitoring international
treaty compliance, but increasingly contribute to the making of international law.
This development suggests a number of challenging
research puzzles, especially as international courts impact on domestic
political orders. For instance, how do governments, parliaments, national
courts, bureaucracies and other sub-state actors and institutions interact with
the new authority of international courts? Under which conditions do they
become effective nationally? And why have states decided to establish these international courts in the first place? Moreover, how do domestic
agents resist, adapt to, or utilize international judicial institutions? How does
this new and expanding international judiciary impact on established national
constitutional democratic orders? And what role do international courts play in
sustaining and developing the global order - and how does this role affect
politics and society at large?
For this conference, we invite both political science,
sociology and law papers that address both the impact of international judicial institutions on
domestic legal and political orders that is the general trend toward international
juridicialization and the domestic
politics conditions under which states choose to adopt international case law,
conventions and judicial institutions. We
welcome papers aimed at empirical explanation or theoretical assessment, and
particularly papers that have a comparative perspective. Whereas previous
research on the domestic impact of international courts and conventions has so
far primarily focused on autocracies, we are particularly interested in 'rule
of law' countries as these must be expected to have fewer problems adopting
international case law and conventions into their national legal order. Or do
they? Very little research has in fact been asking and investigating this
question.
Organizers: Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Senior
Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo &
PluriCourts see http://www.jus.uio.no/pluricourts/english/
; Marlene Wind, Professor
of Political Science and Centre Director
for Centre for European Politics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. She is also member of the leadership team and
project coordinator at iCourts – Centre of Excellence for International Courts
at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen jura.ku.dk/icourts)
and Professor II at Oslo University with PluriCourts.
Please submit your
paper proposal to: Zuzanna.Godzimirska@jur.ku.dk
or Kristoffer.shaldemose@gmail.com
by first of March 2014 at the latest.