Social movements are an important part of a functioning society – also on a global scale. I argue that the internet and social media enable the formation of informal civil society movements and provide the means for such movements to participate in the shaping of international law to an...

This article explores how international human rights law has influenced relations between organized civil society and the State in Japan. More specifically, it analyzes whether global norms on human rights have had any broad influence on the role of civil society as a public actor, or on the...

Many claim a process of judicialization of international dispute settlement procedures is taking place. In order to capture this ongoing process we introduce an analytical framework to assess the degree of judicialization of international dispute settlement procedures. We then proceed to present...