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Matthew Saul is a Researcher at PluriCourts, a Centre of Excellence for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order at the University of Oslo, Norway. He publishes on aspects of general international law, international human rights law, and international adjudication. His current research focuses on the impact of the European Court of Human Rights on the behaviour of national parliaments. He is the author of two recent pieces examining how the European Court of Human Rights has evaluated the quality of parliamentary processes (Human Rights Law Review, 2015, The International Journal of Human Rights, 2016). He is the editor (with Follesdal and Ulfstein) of The International Human Rights Judiciary and National Parliaments: Europe and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Saul is also the editor (with French and White) of International Law and Dispute Settlement: New Techniques and Problems (Hart 2010), and (with Sweeney) of International Law and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Policy (Routledge 2015). His monograph Popular Governance of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.