Beyond Fragmentation
Cross-Fertilization, Cooperation and Competition among International Courts and Tribunals

A timely assessment of cross-fertilization among international courts and tribunals as a complex multi-dimensional process, involving procedural and substantive elements.

Chiara Giorgetti (Edited by), Mark Pollack (Edited by)

9781009100496, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 May 2022

256 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 1.9 cm, 0.56 kg

Beyond Fragmentation assembles a unique team of expert practitioners and leading scholars to explore and advance the study of cross-fertilization among international courts and tribunals. Using an inter-disciplinary and multi-method approach, contributors analyse how international courts and tribunals interact and why it matters in practice. After a thorough review of prior assessments of cross-fertilization and fragmentation, the editors offer a new take on competition and cooperation across courts and tribunals, exploring both substantive and procedural elements as well as the diverse agents of cross fertilization. Contributors engage with procedural issues, identifying a “procedural cross-fertilization pull” and why and how procedure is converging in international courts and tribunals. Case studies on the convergence in the law of the sea and at the European Court of Human Rights provide contrasting experiences of substantive cross-fertilization. The volume also identifies a variety of agents of cross-fertilization, including judges, litigants, counsel, and international organizations.

1. Beyond fragmentation: cross-fertilization, cooperation and competition among international courts and tribunals Chiara Giorgetti and Mark Pollack
2. The procedural cross fertilization pull Hélène Ruiz Fabri and Joshua Paine
3. Procedural convergence in international courts and tribunals John Crook
4. New media evidence across international courts and tribunals Rebecca Hamilton
5. The acquis judiciaire, a new formula for cohesion of law in a decentralized litigation system? – A case study in the law of the sea Alina Miron
6. Why cite external legal sources? Theory and evidence from the European court of human rights Erik Voeten
7. Of gardeners and bees: Theorizing the actors of cross-fertilization Chiara Giorgetti and Mark Pollack
8. The PCA as an epicentre of cross-fertilization Fedelma Smith
9. Abusive forum shopping or strategic forum choice? Freya Baetens.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST], International courts & procedures [LBHG], Public international law [LBB], International law [LB]