Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves currently as the academic director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights, a director in the International Law Forum at the Hebrew University, and the Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT) and a member of the steering committee of the DOMAC project (assessing the impact of international courts on domestic criminal procedures in mass atrocity cases). Shany has degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LL.B, 1995 cum laude), New York University (LL.M., 1997), and the University of London (Ph.D., 2001) and he has published a number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and other international law issues such as international human rights and international humanitarian law.

• PART I: THE GOAL-BASED APPROACH; PART II: APPLICATION OF THE GOAL-BASED APPROACH TO JUDICIAL FUNCTIONS AND FEATURES; PART III: APPLICATION OF THE GOAL-BASED APPROACH TO SPECIFIC COURTS

Are international courts effective? Scholars must decide whether the conceptual framework proposed by Shany is put to best use in a comparative analysis across different international courts, in an assessment of the effectiveness of an individual court on its own, or in both forms of application. Nevertheless, although future research will be instrumental in testing the methodology and concepts as developed, shining a spotlight on effectiveness is an important contribution.