International courts and tribunals make decisions which shape international law. Yet what grants them the legitimacy to make these decisions in the first place? This book proposes a theory of international public law that argues that these international courts democratically derive their legitimacy from the people and citizens.

Armin von Bogdandy, Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Director, Ingo Venzke, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam

• Postscript to the Paperback Edition


• 1: Agenda and objectives


• 2: Basic conceptions of international courts


• 3: Key elements of a public law theory of adjudication


• 4: Pathways of democratic legitimacy


• 5: In whose name?