Part I. International Adjudication - An Ever-Present History: 1. Experiments in international adjudication - past and present Jorge E. Viñuales; 2. The turn to the history of international adjudication Ignacio de la Rasilla; Part II. Experiments in Dispute-Specific Adjudication: 3. Imperial consolidation through arbitration: territorial and boundary disputes In Africa (1870-1914) Inge Van Hulle; 4. How to prevent a war and alienate lawyers - the peculiar case of the 1905 North Sea Incident Commission Jan Lemnitzer; 5.

The Arbitral tribunal for Upper Silesia: an early success in international adjudication Gerard Conway; Part III. Context-Specific Redress Mechanisms: 6. Mixed claim commissions and the once centrality of the protection of aliens Frédéric Mégret; 7. The general claims commission (Mexico and the United States) and the invention of international responsibility Jean d'Aspremont; 8. Mirage in the desert: regional judicialization in the Arab world Cesare P. R. Romano; Part IV. The Quest for a Permanent Court: 9.

Saving face: the political work of the permanent court of arbitration (1902-1914) Andrei Mamolea; 10. First to rise and first to fall: the Court of Cartago (1907-1918) Freya Baetens; 11. The failure of the 1930 tribunal of the British Commonwealth of Nations: a conflict between international and constitutional law Donal Coffey; Part V. Experiments in specialised courts: 12. The intellectual foundations of the European Court of Human Rights Angelo Junior Golia and Ludovic Hennebel; 13. From international law to a constitutionalist dream? The history of European law and the European Court of Justice, 1950-1993 Morten Rasmussen.