Governance of International Courts and Tribunals

Sergey Vasiliev is Professor of International Law at the Open University of the Netherlands, a position he has held since 2024. He previously served as Associate Professor (2020-24) and Assistant Professor (2019-20) at the Amsterdam Law School, where he was also the founding Director of the Amsterdam Center of Criminal Justice and Academic Director of the LLM in International Criminal Law. His publications focus on international criminal law and the institutional and governance aspects of international adjudication. Vasiliev is a member of the authors' team of the leading textbook An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (5th edn, Cambridge University Press, 2024).Niels Blokker is Professor Emeritus of International Institutional Law at Leiden Law School. Appointed to the 'Schermers Chair' in 2003, he has held a full-time appointment since August 2013. From 2000 to 2013, he worked at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Senior Legal Counsel and, from 2007, as Deputy Legal Adviser. Blokker is one of the world's leading experts in international institutional law and has published extensively in this field, including the standard reference work co-authored with the late Henry G. Schermers (7th rev edn, 2025). He is co-founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Organizations Law Review.

• PART I - DEMARCATING AND MAPPING JUDICIAL GOVERNANCE 1: Sergey Vasiliev and Niels Blokker: Introduction 2: Sergey Vasiliev: What is (International) Judicial Governance? 3: Niels Blokker: International Judicial Governance Institutions: Topography, Typology, and Guiding Principles PART II - HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS 4: Henri de Waele: Managing the Realization of 'The Hope of Ages': Governance of the Permanent Court of International Justice 5: Sergey Vasiliev: Governance of the International Military Tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo PART III - MODERN REGIMES 6: Serena Forlati: Governance of the International Court of Justice 7: John Eudes Ruhangisa: Governance of Regional Integration CourtsDL EACJ and SADC Tribunal: Perspectives from Africa 8: Misha Ariana Plagis and Karin Pluberg: Paper Lions: The Governance of Africa's (Quasi-)Judicial Human Rights Institutions 9: Heikki Kanninen: Governance of the Court of Justice of the European Union 10: Huw Llewellyn: Governance of the United Nations Criminal Tribunals 11: Evelyn Anoya: Governance of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: An Administrative Perspective PART IV - JUDICIAL GOVERNANCE FUNCTIONS 12: Andrzej Drzemczewski: The Election of Judges onto the European Court of Human Rights 13: Christiaan Timmermans: The Procedure for Nominating Members of the EU Courts: The Role of the 255 Panel 14: Adriana-Maria Manolescu: Financial Governance of International Courts and Tribunals 15: Dorine Nauleau: The Enforcement of International Judicial Decisions 16: Hanneke Palm and Roeland Böcker: Implementation of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: The Supervisory Role of the Committee of Ministers PART V - CRISES AND SOLUTIONS 17: Peter van den Bossche: The Demise of the WTO Appellate Body: Lessons for the Governance of International Adjudication? 18: Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi: Challenges to the Governance of the International Criminal Court 19: Christian M. De Vos, Mariana Pena, and Yassir Khudayri: Electing the Best? Process and Politics of Nomination and Election of International Judges 20: Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány: Deficient Protection of the Independence of International Judges by International Judicial Governance Institutions: The Case of Judge Akay PART VI - FUTURE OUTLOOK 21: Nicolas Guillou and Adriana-Maria Manolescu: The Three-Layered Governance Model: The Truce between Independence and Accountability 22: Niels Blokker and Sergey Vasiliev: Conclusion PART VII - KEYNOTE ADDRESSES Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf: Addendum 1: Governance of the International Court of Justice O-Gon Kwon: Addendum 2: Governance of the International Criminal Court