The Preliminary Ruling Procedures at International Regional Courts and Tribunals

Abstract

AbstractMany regional integration systems, inspired by the preliminary ruling procedure under the current article 267 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, incorporate models for cooperation between national courts and international courts and tribunals that vary significantly from one to the other. This work seeks above all to classify those models and to pose the question of which model, irrespective of how much it is actually used in practice, appears ‐ at least potentially ‐ to afford the best means of attaining the goal of regional integration that each of the systems analysed pursues to varying degrees.