Edited by Geert De Baere, Associate Professor of International Law and EU Law, the Institute for European Law and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven and Jan Wouters, Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam EU and Global Governance and Director, Institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium

• Contents:PART ITHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK1. Prologue: An Overview of the Contribution of International Tribunals to the Rule of Law Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade2. The Contribution of International and Supranational Courts to the Rule of Law: A Framework for AnalysisGeert De Baere, Anna-Luise Chané and Jan WoutersPART IIGLOBAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS3. The International Court of JusticePhilippe Couvreur4. Constructing the International Criminal Court’s Rule of Law IdentityKenneth Chan and Jan Wouters5. The Appellate Body of the World Trade OrganizationPeter Van den Bossche6. The Contribution of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to the Rule of LawPhilippe GautierPART IIIREGIONAL COURTS7. The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to the Rule of LawPaul Lemmens8. The Court of Justice as the Guarantor of the Rule of Law Within the European UnionKoen LenaertsPART IVTRIBUNALS PERTAINING TO PARTICULAR SITUATIONS9. International Criminal Justice and the Rule of Law: The Experience of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)Serge Brammertz10. The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and its Contribution to International LawHans Van Houtte and Barbara Concolino11. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the Rule of LawDaniel FransenPART VEPILOGUE12. Epilogue: Curb, Channel and Coordinate: The Constitutionalism of International Courts and TribunalsAndreas FollesdalIndex

‘This book offers a unique and essential combination of careful self-assessment of the achievements and challenges of international adjudication, in chapters written by scholars who are also members of the most prominent international courts, together with a rigorous and sober external analysis of the promise and limits of promoting the international rule of law through adjudication. The book provides the state of the art contemporary overview of the field and therefore is a must read for scholars, students and practitioners.’