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Ruth Mackenzie, Kate Malleson, Penny Martin, and Philippe SandsQC (eds.), Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process, and Politics, Oxford University Press, 2010, 300pp., ISBN 978-0-19-958056-9, £60.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Mia Swart
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 789 - 792
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References

1 T. ten Kate, ‘Dissenting Opinion, a Background Sketch’, in S. K. Martens et al., Martens Dissenting: The Separate Opinions of a European Human Rights Judge (2000), 12.

2 Rome Statute, Art. 36(8)(a)(iii).

3 See www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec09/sotomayor_08-05.html.

4 See Eldar, O., ‘Vote Trading in International Institutions’, (2008) 19 EJIL 3CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 23.

5 See his chapter ‘Ensuring the Best Bench: Ways of Selecting Judges’, in C. Peck and R. S. Lee (eds.), Increasing the Effectiveness of the International Court of Justice (1997), 184.

6 For an interesting historical account, see O. Spierman, International Legal Argument in the Permanent Court of International Justice (2005), especially Chapters 5–7.

7 Ibid.

8 Nice, G., ‘Trials of Imperfection’, (2001) 14 LJIL 394CrossRefGoogle Scholar.