A Typology of Transjudicial Communication

This article examines the phenomenon of transjudicial communication - communication among various levels of courts across borders. It classifies this communication by form, degree of reciprocal engagement, and function, producing a description of a full spectrum of interactions. The idea of transjudicial communication is important to the domestic implementation of human rights because it envisions, for example, networks of national and supranational courts talking to one another in a collective deliberation over the protection of human rights, enforcing human rights globally with a minimum of global machinery.