Judgment Day

Rosa Aloisi specializes in research on international justice, international courts, international human rights, and gender issues in international politics. She currently co-leads a Trinity University International Criminal Justice Study Abroad Program to The Hague and to Poland. James Meernik specializes in research on international justice and international courts, post conflict peace building, and United States foreign policy. He co-leads a University of North Texas Study Abroad Program to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia that won the 2007 American Political Science Association award for the most innovative course in the United States. He won a Fulbright Specialist grant to the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM) in 2009 and another Fulbright Specialist award with Soochow University, Taiwan.

• 1. The importance of judicial decision making; 2. A theory of international judges as judicial entrepreneurs; 3. Analyzing the progressive development of international law; 4. The expressive function of judgments; 5. Punishing the guilty; 6. Conclusions.