10 March 2026

Marketing Justice

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We sometimes hear discussions that frame international dispute settlement in the language of markets. Consider the various discussions surrounding how international actors engage in ‘forum shopping’, looking for their preferred international dispute settlement venue amongst various available options. But what happens when we begin imagining courts and tribunals as active participants in this market? In what sense could we speak of courts and tribunals engaging in marketing? 

Guests  

Dr Georgia Antonopoulou, Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution, Birmingham Law School, College of Arts and Law.  

Professor Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Warwick Law School, the University of Warwick 

Host 

Eduardo Silva de Freitas, PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam and junior researcher in private international law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute. 

 

Further reading 

Christine Schwöbel-Patel, 'Spectacle in international criminal law: the fundraising image of victimhood' (2016) 4 London Review of International Law 247. 

Christine Schwöbel-Patel, 'The ‘Ideal’ Victim of International Criminal Law' (2018) 29 European Journal of International Law 703. 

Georgia Antonopoulou, 'The ‘Arbitralization’ of Courts: The Role of International Commercial Arbitration in the Establishment and the Procedural Design of International Commercial Courts' (2023) 14 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 328. 

Georgia Antonopoulou, 'Forum Marketing in International Commercial Courts?' (2024) 44 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 860.