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International Courts : Are They Working?, James Rice

Conference on “Improving the Human Destiny"

This paper will address some of these questions by first tracing the establishment of international courts from the end of the Second World War to the most recent developments such as the establishment of the ad hoc Balkan and Cambodian Tribunals and the (permanent) International Criminal Court. Here, I will also seek to highlight both the successes and challenges to these diverse international judicial bodies. In the context of this examination, it is hoped that some new light may be shed on the inherent difficulties that international judicial bodies have faced, and on a viable path forward that in some …