International Dispute Settlement Mechanisms for Territorial Autonomies?

Methods of dispute settlement mechanisms in the relations between central state and territorial autonomy deserve much more attention and require deeper thinking today. Such attention and debate should stretch across the domestic – international divide and explore new avenues of legitimacy and dispute settlement between polities and multi-level actors. This means that when addressing the matter, we need to examine both domestic and international law, thus necessitating cooperation between legal sub-disciplines. In what follows I argue why this is the case.