Workshop: Sociological Perspectives on International Tribunals

On November 8-9, 2018, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law will hold a workshop on "Sociological Perspectives on International Tribunals." The program is here. Here's the idea:

The workshop will focus on sociological aspects of practices by international tribunals. Speakers will discuss diverse socio-cultural issues involved in the operation and impact of international tribunals as: the interactions between formal procedural rules and informal norms; the formal and social functions of tribunals; the symbolic aspects of tribunals’ proceedings and their decisions; the legal cultures (national and international ones) of international adjudication; the socio-cultural factors influencing the diffusion of procedural rules across international tribunals; and the production of knowledge and cognitive aspects of the work of such tribunals.