New book about interdisciplinary legal studies in International Courts
To celebrate professor and centre director at iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts (link), Mikael Rask Madsen on the occasion of ten years as research leader of iCourts and his upcoming 50 years birthday, a group of his internationally esteemed Colleges have contributed to The Making of iCourts: A New Agenda for Legal Research (edited by Henrik Palmer Olsen and Henrik Stampe Lund). The contributions consist of both a research article and “My iCourts experience” – a personal story about each single researchers meeting with iCourts as an international research hub in Copenhagen.
The articles in The Making of iCourts represent different aspects of legal studies in International Courts and International Law and reflect the interdisciplinary and empirical research agenda of the center. The publication is an open access book available at Nomos eLibrary (link).
The book also gives a full overview of the accumulated research output of the center since its establishment in 2012; publications, guest researchers, staff members, working papers, and a number of new principal investigators projects.
The introduction by the editors gives a detailed description of the research design of iCourts as a contemporary basic research oriented center, sharing concrete experiences with at least one way to deal with the challenges of making an attractive global research environment for especially young and upcoming researchers in the 21th. Century.