Andreas Follesdal
Simon Fraser University

This Article was written under the auspices of MultiRights — an ERC Advanced Grant on the Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human Rights Judiciary — www.MultiRights.net; and PluriCourts, a Research Council of Norway Centre of
Excellence — www.PluriCourts.net. It was first presented at the Conference on International Courts and the Quest for Legitimacy, Tel Aviv University, June 3, 2012, and then at a conference of the International Political Science Association, Madrid, July 9, 2012. I am grateful to the organizers and participants of those conferences, especially for the prepared comments of Ruti Teitel and Mikyoung Kim; and to Geir Ulfstein, Mitch Robinson and other MultiRights members for constructive suggestions for improvements; and to the editors of this Journal.