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PluriCourts - Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order

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PluriCourts has ended

PluriCourts - Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order was a Center of Excellence at the University of Oslo led by Andreas Føllesdal and Geir Ulfstein. The centre was funded by the Research Council of Norway for the period 2013 – 2023.

PluriCourts' research

PluriCourts studied the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals (ICs) from legal, political science and philosophical perspectives. The normative, legal, and empirical soundness of charges of illegitimacy were explored to understand and assess how ICs do, could, and should respond.

PluriCourts examined research themes such as multidimensional legitimacy standards, separation of authority, independence and accountability, performance, and comparative advantages of a variety of international courts and tribunals.

Its researchers studied an array of ICs dealing with questions related to various topics such as human rights, trade, criminal law, investments, environmental cases, the law of the sea and EU law.