AbstractNational contestations against international courts and tribunals are a polymorph object to analyse. While they generally deal with the legitimacy of an international

court or tribunal, manifesting discontent with its very existence or work, in some rare cases, national contestations focus on the legal reasoning developed in an [...]

AbstractDomestic authorities, including national courts, at times, resist accepting the decisions of international courts and tribunals. The formal division between the national

and international legal orders creates space for domestic authorities to contest or avoid international binding judicial decisions. [...]

AbstractThe Inter-American Court of Human Rights is one of the world's most active human rights tribunals. Through an impressive history of case law, the Court has exerted

significant influence upon Latin American states. In recent years, however, states and domestic national courts have challenged the Inter-American Court's authority [...]

ABSTRACT Investor–State dispute settlement (ISDS) is undergoing a seismic shift, not least regarding its relationship with human rights. We apply the three ‘generations’

of human rights framework to ISDS reform, underscoring fundamental tensions between ISDS and human rights considerations. [...]

AbstractRecent years have seen a marked increase in ‘clashes’ between national courts on the one hand and international courts and tribunals on the other hand. This article

introduces a new analytical pattern, called ‘principled resistance’, in order to analyse deficits occurring during the implementation phase of a Strasbourg judgment. [...]

AbstractArbitral tribunals in the field of investment treaty arbitration have generated rules governing their own jurisdiction. This article examines the effect of the controlling

role of domestic courts on the development of arbitral jurisdictional regulation, tracking the treatment of arbitrator-made jurisdictional rules by domestic courts [...]

AbstractThis article analyses non-compliance with decisions issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the matter of indigenous territorial rights. The central objectives

of the work are (i) to quantify and to analyse the level of compliance with reparation orders issued by the Court in indigenous territorial decisions and (ii) to [...]

Transparency remains an under-analyzed topic in port research, and previous research has shown that port decision-making and governance reporting are inconsistent across countries.

While transparency might be imposed through legislation or voluntarily adopted, effective transparency also includes (a) an organization’s willingness to consistently [...]