The book examines the plurality of factors involving the proliferation of international courts and tribunals at global and regional level and also the reasons for their marked specialisation as well as the demand for international justice and the growing confidence in international judicial bodies and in their functions.  Meer

In the last few decades, the law of the sea has been affected not only by the processes of globalisation that have changed the key interests of the international community but also by natural phenomena like climate change.  Meer