Assessing the Effectiveness of International Courts

Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves currently as the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, a director in the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University, and the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT) and a member of the steering committee of the DOMAC project (assessing the impact of international courts on domestic criminal procedures in mass atrocity cases). Shany has degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LL.B, 1995 cum laude), New York University (LL.M., 1997), and the University of London (Ph.D., 2001) and he has published a number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and other international law issues such as international human rights and international humanitarian law.

Introduction
Part I: The Goal-Based Approach
1. A Goal-Based Approach to Effectiveness Analysis
2. The Goals of International Courts
3. Measuring Goal Attainment
Part II: Application of the Goal-Based Approach to Judicial Functions and Features
4. Jurisdictional Powers and Issues of Admissibility
5. Judicial Independence and Impartiality
6. Judgment-Compliance
7. Legitimacy
Part III: Application of the Goal-Based Approach to Specific Courts
8. The International Court of Justice, Yuval Shany and Rotem Giladi
9. WTO Dispute Settlement System, Yuval Shany and Sivan Shlomo
10. The International Criminal Court, Yuval Shany, Gilad Noam, and Sigall Horovitz
11. European Court of Human Rights, Yuval Shany and Henry Lovat
12. European Court of Justice, Yuval Shany and Thorbjorn Bjornsson
Conclusions