Introduction

The proliferation of international courts, tribunals and other dispute settlement bodies and their jurisprudence have been matched by a rapidly increasing wealth of academic literature, in print and online. The Manual on International Courts and Tribunals ('the Manual') will serve as a hitchhiker's guide to those ever-expanding galaxies. Given the nature of the book, which is descriptive rather than composed of a central thesis or argument, this review aims not to summarize its substantive contents but to highlight its main strengths and weaknesses and provide an overview of its ...