Focusing on the expanding realm of international adjudication, this paper approaches justice from the domain of the empirical and shows - through a careful, interview-based case-study analysis in the WTO-EU context - that justice in the transnational context is not only a contested concept, but...

This paper examines Hans Kelsen's theory of international adjudication and its political implications in the context of Kelsen's post-war calls for compulsory jurisdiction. It defends Kelsen's position on judicial law-making against claims by scholars such as Hardt and Negri that it amounts to a...

In seinem neuen Buch möchte der ehemalige DBS-Präsident und heutige Präsident der Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz zeigen, dass so, wie Marktwirtschaft und freier Informationsfluss Demokratie und Menschenrechte verbreiten, sich mit der Globalisierung die Chance einer...

Theorists as distinct as Giorgio Agamben and Robert Cover have emphasized the paradox at the center of democratic legal authority, viz. that it cannot be self-derived but must ultimately rest on some extra-legal phenomenon, usually an act of exclusion. It has not been generally recognized that...