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date: 14 December 2019

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This chapter discusses the appointment and election of judges in international courts. It analyzes the intergovernmental context of international judicial selection, and then turns to the rules, practice, and innovation in the selection process. It concludes that while judicial selection in international courts is characterized by diversity, evolution, and innovation, it remains largely characterized by intergovernmental control and state interest. Politics continues to play an integral, and often decisive, role in the composition of international courts and in the appointment of individual judges.

Keywords: judicial selection, judicial appointment, international courts, politics, intergovernmental control

Ruth Mackenzie

Ruth Mackenzie is Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Westminster. She was previously Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. Ruth has been associated with the Project on International Courts and Tribunals since its inception in 1997. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the DOMAC research project on the Impact of International Courts on Domestic Criminal Procedures in Mass Atrocity Cases. Ruth has also worked extensively in the field of international environmental law.

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