ABSTRACT
This chapter critically analyzes the emerging scholarship on judicial globalization (Koh 1997; Raustiala 2002; Slaughter 2004; Slaughter and Zaring 2006), focusing in particular on the salience of information networks, harmonization networks, and enforcement networks in the international system. Based on evidence from cases, the chapter demonstrates that the nature of judicial networks is far more heterogeneous, their contribution to international governance far less consequential, and their operation far more complex than is commonly assumed. By evaluating not only the benefi ts of judicial networks, but also their costs, the chapter provides a critical perspective on the rule of law in the international system.
