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MARJAN AJEVSKI into contact with national judicial administrations, or national foreign ministries in a completely different way and for completely different reasons. The same is true for individuals or non-governmental entities, different organs of the court come into contact with these actors in a different way — the judges through their case law and decisions, or through the various public lectures that they give or prizes that they receive. The registrars, on the other hand, have a more formal or service oriented contact, either through field offices for the ICC, or through information dissemination and outreach, or through managing the administrative part of an application process (e.g. the ECtHR). These different types of relationships can have different effects on the various aspects of an international court’s operation. For example, while it is obvious that interactions with the foreign ministries of states can have a negative impact on the independence of the judges, it is not so obvious why this should be the case for the administrative organs of the registrar. Quite the contrary, some of these contacts are necessary, for example, when the ICC needs to ask and lobby for support from governments so it can carry out its functions successfully. On the other hand, interactions with NGO’s or academia can call into question the independence of the judges if they receive compensation for their lectures or receive public awards for their work on the bench, or if they are members of the boards on some NGOs or even companies. Conversely, judges’ interactions with national parliaments or courts can both be seen as an intimidation, or a legitimacy enhancing exercises depending on the setting or the tone of the exercise. It is only when we see courts as complex bureaucracies, rather than unified entities can we understand the full extent of a court’s operations. The Report clearly demonstrates the benefits of this approach. THE BANALITY OF GOOD In Representing Justice®* Resnik and Curtis portray how representations of justice in architecture and the art found in court buildings demonstrate the image of justice that a state or an international organization, wants to project. In their chapter devoted to ICs, they discuss the Peace Palace (the home of the ICJ) and the art housed within it, noting that the image that the funders and the designers wanted to project was one of grandeur and gravitas in the pursuit of international law, a shiny city atop a hill, a beacon for peace through law. When the ICC was created and a design competition was announced, it proclaimed the vision of the Court as 33 Judith Resnik — Dennis E. Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2011. +50 +
