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7 - International Courts and Tribunals in the USA and in Europe

The Increasingly Divided West

from 2 - International Adjudication and the Development of International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2021

Chiara Giorgetti
Affiliation:
University of Richmond
Guglielmo Verdirame
Affiliation:
King's College London
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European countries are seen as strong supporters of international adjudicatory institutions related to human rights and international criminal law, while the USA has generally been more skeptical about international courts and tribunals. While positions of the USA and Europe have generally been similar in relation to tribunals examining issues to trade and investment, for example. More recently and especially since the election of President Trump, the USA’s position towards all international courts and tribunals, including on matters of international economic law. The election of President Trump has resulted in a profound antagonism towards international courts and tribunals, and multilateral institutions more generally, in both words and facts. Differently, European countries, guided in large part by the European Union, have broadly maintained their support for international courts and tribunals, including trade related courts, and have voiced their desire for substantial changes in investor-state dispute resolution mechanisms. In both cases, European countries have not tried to dissociate from those courts, but rather, have argued for stronger, clearer and more permanent dispute resolution mechanisms.

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Whither the West?
International Law in Europe and the United States
, pp. 175 - 201
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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