Shai Dothan’s book International Judicial Review aims to refute criticism which stresses international courts’ (ICs) lack of legitimacy, epistemic inferiority, suffocation of public deliberation, susceptibility to capture and production of bad outcomes. This essay argues, however, that there is an important line of criticism of ICs stemming from a profounder disagreement with the post-Cold War international legal system – the critique related to ethno-national and/or authoritarian populism – which poses novel challenges to justifying ICs. Engaging with Dothan’s arguments through the prism of the populist backlash, this essay contributes to recent scholarship on populism and international law by explaining how populism challenges the justification of IC interventions. Populists treat majority will and national/regional identity as the exclusive sources of the common good, and this casts doubts on arguments favouring multilateralism, such as the Condorcet Jury Theorem used by Dothan. It also allows populists to re-frame IC interventions as threats to people’s well-being and disseminate ‘counter-myths’ delegitimizing ICs, which may impair ICs’ ability to produce good outcomes. Altogether, populism has the capacity to increase the costs of international judicial intervention for ICs and reduce the costs of non-compliance and exit for the populists, which confronts IC scholars and judges with new challenges.

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国际法院何时应介入？民粹主义、民主衰败和自由国际主义危机如何使事情复杂化

Shai Dothan 的著作《国际司法评论》旨在驳斥那些强调国际法院 (IC) 缺乏合法性、认知自卑、窒息公众审议、容易被捕获和产生不良结果的批评。然而，本文认为，对 ICs 的重要批评源于对冷战后国际法律体系的深刻分歧——与民族-民族和/或威权民粹主义有关的批评——这对证明其正当性提出了新的挑战集成电路。通过民粹主义反弹的棱镜与 Dothan 的论点相结合，本文通过解释民粹主义如何挑战 IC 干预的正当性，为最近关于民粹主义和国际法的学术研究做出了贡献。民粹主义者将多数意志和国家/地区身份视为共同利益的唯一来源，这使人们对支持多边主义的论点产生怀疑，例如多森使用的孔多塞陪审团定理。它还允许民粹主义者将 IC 干预重新定义为对人民福祉的威胁，并传播“反神话”使 IC 合法化，这可能会削弱 IC 产生良好结果的能力。总而言之，民粹主义有能力增加国际司法干预对IC的成本，降低民粹主义者的不遵守和退出成本，这给IC学者和法官带来了新的挑战。它还允许民粹主义者将 IC 干预重新定义为对人民福祉的威胁，并传播“反神话”使 IC 合法化，这可能会削弱 IC 产生良好结果的能力。总而言之，民粹主义有能力增加国际司法干预对IC的成本，降低民粹主义者的不遵守和退出成本，这给IC学者和法官带来了新的挑战。它还允许民粹主义者将 IC 干预重新定义为对人民福祉的威胁，并传播“反神话”使 IC 合法化，这可能会削弱 IC 产生良好结果的能力。总而言之，民粹主义有能力增加国际司法干预对IC的成本，降低民粹主义者的不遵守和退出成本，这给IC学者和法官带来了新的挑战。