Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg and Professor at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He is President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal and was a Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2008-2013). He is Partner Investigator in the Exzellenzcluster "Normative Orders", Frankfurt, and Senior Research Fellow at the PluriCourts Centre for Excellence, Oslo.Ingo Venzke is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore, Hauser Research Scholar at New York University, Visiting Scholar at Tel Aviv University and Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg. He is editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law and contributes to the research cluster on the exercise of public authority, Heidelberg.

In their dedicated work the two authors find that the received function of international courts as inter-state dispute settlers has been significantly expanded. Von Bogdandy and Venzke succeed in striking a comprehensible tone, which shows the consequences [of international adjudication] for the lives of the readers.

• 1. Agenda and objectives ; 2. Basic conceptions of international courts ; 3. Key elements of a public law theory of adjudication ; 4. Pathways of democratic legitimacy ; 5. In whose name?

Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg and Professor at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He is President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal and was a Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2008-2013). He is Partner Investigator in the Exzellenzcluster "Normative Orders", Frankfurt, and Senior Research Fellow at the PluriCourts Centre for Excellence, Oslo.Ingo Venzke is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore, Hauser Research Scholar at New York University, Visiting Scholar at Tel Aviv University and Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg. He is editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law and contributes to the research cluster on the exercise of public authority, Heidelberg.

In their dedicated work the two authors find that the received function of international courts as inter-state dispute settlers has been significantly expanded. Von Bogdandy and Venzke succeed in striking a comprehensible tone, which shows the consequences [of international adjudication] for the lives of the readers.

• 1. Agenda and objectives ; 2. Basic conceptions of international courts ; 3. Key elements of a public law theory of adjudication ; 4. Pathways of democratic legitimacy ; 5. In whose name?

Armin von Bogdandy is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg and Professor at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt. He is President of the OECD Nuclear Energy Tribunal and was a Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2008-2013). He is Partner Investigator in the Exzellenzcluster "Normative Orders", Frankfurt, and Senior Research Fellow at the PluriCourts Centre for Excellence, Oslo.Ingo Venzke is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore, Hauser Research Scholar at New York University, Visiting Scholar at Tel Aviv University and Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg. He is editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law and contributes to the research cluster on the exercise of public authority, Heidelberg.

In their dedicated work the two authors find that the received function of international courts as inter-state dispute settlers has been significantly expanded. Von Bogdandy and Venzke succeed in striking a comprehensible tone, which shows the consequences [of international adjudication] for the lives of the readers.

• 1. Agenda and objectives ; 2. Basic conceptions of international courts ; 3. Key elements of a public law theory of adjudication ; 4. Pathways of democratic legitimacy ; 5. In whose name?