Reaction –– Themis and Dike in the International Arena: Comments on von Bogdandy's and Venzke's “Democratic Legitimation of International Judicial Lawmaking”

The Max Planck Institute's research on international judicial institutions as lawmakers, which was published in May as a special issue of the German Law Journal, is an important contribution to the analysis of one of the most complex and controversial legal issues in our epoch. In the last two decades, international adjudication has become a recurrent source of legal concern, and sometimes even a source of public concern.