Karen J. Alter

TL;DR: The Andean Community has achieved surprising success in one part of its legal system as mentioned in this paper, and more than fourteen hundred rulings on intellectual property by the Andean Tribunal of Justice have helped national administrative agencies improve their decision making and resist pressure to deviate from Andean rules.

TL;DR: The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (ECCJ) has been an increasingly active and bold international adjudicator of human rights violations in West Africa as discussed by the authors, and it has issued several path-breaking judgments, including against the Gambia for the torture of journalists, against Niger for condoning modern forms of slavery, and against Nigeria for failing to regulate the multinational oil companies that polluted the Niger Delta.

TL;DR: A practicable metric is generated that assesses de facto IC authority according to a conjunctive standard — the recognition of an obligation to comply with IC rulings, and the engagement in meaningful actions that push toward giving full effect to IC rulings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to studying international ad judicative bodies in the context of international legal and procedural issues in international ad judication, focusing on the following issues:

TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction between self-binding and other-binding delegations to courts is made, and the authors explore the linkage between these two notions by exploring the distinction between "self-binding" and "otherbinding" delegation to courts.