Lunch seminar with Edouard Fromageau
A Tentative Taxonomy of Quasi-Judicial Bodies in International Law
Abstract
The adjective ‘quasi-judicial’ is used to describe an array of domestic and international bodies that eschew traditional categorizations. The term was used first domestically in the 1820s. It emerged in international legal discourse only in the 1990s, when international courts and tribunals proliferated. Indeed, it was used to label a new class of international bodies and procedures that, at the same time, differed from adjudicative bodies, because they were not issuing binding decisions, but was also unlike diplomatic means of international dispute settlement, because they had several of the features of adjudicative bodies such as independent members, rules of procedure, legal reasoning etc.
Quasi-judicial bodies are nowadays legion at the international level.Some of those organs, such as the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the World Bank Inspection Panel, and the European Investment Bank Complaints Mechanism have gained considerable visibility and are now a legitimate part of the international adjudication landscape. While visible and numerous, these quasi-judicial bodies have not yet been analyzed as a category by the international law scholarship. In this lunch seminar, I will present the first two chapters of my forthcoming monograph on quasi-judicial bodies in international law, and provide a tentative taxonomy of these bodies in international law.
Speaker bio
Edouard Fromageau is a Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Aberdeen and taught arbitration courses for the past 15 years (in Geneva, Luxembourg, and Düsseldorf).
He specialises in international economic law, international dispute resolution, law and technology, and the law of international organisations, but also contributed in several occasions to projects with international human rights, global animal law and international environmental law aspects.
Before joining the University of Aberdeen as a Lecturer in 2020, Dr. Fromageau was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, which he joined in 2015 after a postdoctoral stay at NYU School of Law.
Dr. Fromageau obtained a dual Ph.D. (summa cum laude, Prix Bellot) in public international law from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and Aix-Marseille Université (France) in 2014. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Public International Law Department of the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva between January 2009 and December 2014. He was also a Visiting Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2012, and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Kobe in 2017.
Dr. Fromageau is a member of the Board of the European Society of International Law, and was a co-convener of the ESIL Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals. His current research interests include legal theory and legal reasoning, global and international institutional law, judicial and quasi-judicial dispute settlement.
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