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In this ground-breaking study, taken on the initiative of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Thomas M. Franck, and Gregory H. Fox explore the use of international law decisions by national courts, providing in-depth materials for answers to such critical and practical questions as: To what extent do national judges treat the decisions of their international colleagues as binding or persuasive? Do national judges regard the outcomes of international decisions as res judicata? As evidence of law or fact? Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint

Preliminary Material /Christoffer C. Eriksen and Marius Emberland -- Introduction Polycentric Decision-making Structures and Fragmented Spheres of Law: /Ivar Alvik , Marius Emberland and Christoffer C. Eriksen -- New International Law and Its Doctrine Thinking Outside the "Westphalian Box": /Stéphane Beaulac -- Jurisdictional Competition between International Courts and Tribunals: /Nikolaos Lavranos -- International Relations and New International Law Piercing the Tattered Veil: /Antoine Buyse -- The Power of Administration: /Ole Jacob Sending -- Investment and Property The Hybrid Nature of Investment Treaty Arbitration – Straddling the National/International Divide /Ivar Alvik -- Competing Notions of Property Rights: /Ingunn Ikdahl -- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law: /Natasha Balendra -- Rapprochement and Misrecognition: /Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- On the History of New International Law A Non-territorial Ethnic Network and the Making of Human Rights Law: /Moria Paz -- Internationalization of Criminal Law What's in the ICC for States? /Jo Stigen -- International Security and War 'Securitizing' Development: /Aristotle Constantinides -- Constitutional Underpinnings for Conscientious Objection in Allegiance to International Public Law Norms pertaining to War /Cecilia M. Bailliet -- Environmental Regulation Sustainable Development in Practice: /Christina Voigt -- What May Be the New International Environmental Law? /Nicolai Nyland.