In this paper I aim to defend a view in favor of accepting the international interpretive authority for human rights treaties. This view holds that there are good indirect instrumentalist reasons for starting with a presumption of deference towards international human rights interpretive...

"To what extent is it acceptable in the interests of the greater public good for national or international regulatory regimes to affect the manner in which international charities achieve their missions?" Policymakers may argue that competing public interests demand regulatory oversight of...

This draft of a paper that discusses the jurisdictional accommodation of religious freedom in Australia. In particular, by considering the recent jurisprudence of the High Court of Australia (hereafter the HCA), the paper examines the constitutional legitimacy of government policies that grant...

African sub-regional courts present a paradox: They are established to ensure trade integration is rule-based, but they have overwhelmingly decided human rights rather than trade cases. The COMESA court of Justice is unique, rather than deciding human rights cases, it has overwhelmingly decided...

In recent years, scholars of criminal justice and criminology have brought legitimacy to the forefront of academic and policy discussion. The focus has been primarily – though not exclusively – on legitimacy within policing, with the most common approach framing legitimacy as a...

This annotated bibliography has been produced as part of the inception phase of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) Research Centre. This research centre based at Manchester University, with funding from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), has been set...

The democratic input legitimacy of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) is often questioned. Their independence creates distance from the main executive bodies, who therefore do not necessarily bear responsibility for them. This in turn may negatively affect the responsiveness of the...

Nowadays, the strong political influence of highest courts is one of the features of modern governance. While the judiciary has been largely accepted as a political actor in the American system of governance, this has been more difficult in Europe where the judiciary is still regarded as rather...

In the 1970s, U.S. capitalism suffered a legitimacy crisis as the economy was mired in high inflation, unemployment, and slower growth. The rate of profit had been decreasing since the late 1960s and by the mid-1970s Wall Street was in poor shape. Capitalists politically mobilized in the 1970s...

Statistical studies and the closer review of ICSID cases involving African states do not necessarily reveal systematic and glaring bias against or purposeful disadvantage to the positions of African states. In fact, the outcome seems to be surprisingly balanced and the jurisprudence profound....