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	There is a new post on Opinio Juris.  You can read it at:

http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1201799081.shtml

It begins:

	Thanks to Opinio Juris for inviting me to comment
	on Jacob Cogan’s interesting and
	thought-provoking paper, Competition and Control in
	International Adjudication. Jacob’s essay
	correctly recognizes that a system of controls is
	essential to the successful operation of the
	international legal system in general and
	international tribunals in particular. Controls are
	necessary, Jacob persuasively argues, because the
	states that create international tribunals and
	subject themselves to their jurisdiction benefit
	from adjudicating disputes before independent
	judges. Absent such controls, however, there is a
	risk that some judges will overreach, for example
	by engaging in various forms of activism or
	lawmaking,...