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THE BANALITY OF GOOD issues are not redressed, if there is an atmosphere of fear to speak out against bullying then that puts into guestion the impartiality of the work and advice that the courts staff may give to judges. In situations of complex litigation, " judges rely heavily on their staff to assist them in preparing a complex opinion that can go into the hundreds of pages of reviewing evidence and legal precedent. It is a type of wotk that reguires trust between the judge and their staff, and if that trust is broken by the bad behavior of some judges or some staff members then the work of the court suffers, measured in delays of trials and judgments, but also in the reputation of the court. WHAT NEXT FOR INTERNATIONAL JUDICIAL STUDIES The Report shows that we, the scholars that study ICs, need to expand our research to encompass the study of IC as complex organizations if we are to capture the complex phenomenon of IC. It is not that the studies that have been carried out so far are bad or useless, but that they are inadequate to capture the phenomenon of ICs. The more we know about how ICs operate, the more we become aware of the unknown unknows that could have a major impact on the subject that we study. This is normal and it shows that our field of study is maturing. However, we do have to recognize that we need to change our perceptions of what ICs are. We have moved away from the, now trite, view that ICs are mere dispute resolution mechanisms. Alter has already given a good starting point into the way that we might want to classify the different ICs, depending on their primary function within their respective systems." We should also continue studying the interactions that ICs have with their outside. However, we should, just like Slaughters?? insight regarding states, see ICs as disaggregated entities with several departments, each with their own areas of responsibility, interacting with different, but sometimes, overlapping actors who themselves might be disaggregated. For example, while we have studied how ICs interact with national parliaments or national courts, we should also be aware that different departments of an international court have different types of contact with these national entities. The judges might enter into a dialogue with national courts or national parliaments through their written opinions, but court registrars come 3° Stuart Ford, Complexity and Efficiency at International Criminal Courts, Emory International Law Review 29 (2014), 1-69, 1. 31 Karen ]. Alter, The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2014. Anne-Marie Slaughter, A New World Order, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2004. 32 «49 «
