Conference: The Legitimacy of Unseen Actors in International Adjudication

On October 26-27, 2017, the PluriCourts Centre of Excellence at the University of Oslo and the Europa Instituut at Leiden University will hold a conference on "The Legitimacy of Unseen Actors in International Adjudication," in The Hague. The program is here. Here's the idea:

‘Unseen actors’ are central to the ‘institutional makeup’ of international courts and tribunals as registries and secretariats, law clerks and legal officers may exert varying levels of influence on the judicial process. At this conference, legal and political science scholars and members of adjudicatory institutions will consider and discuss the legitimacy of assigning ‘unseen actors’ certain roles in the judicial process as well as the implications thereof for the legitimacy of the dispute settlement mechanism as such.