TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2009///
PB  - Brill
VL  - 6
SN  - 1572-3739
JF  - International Organizations Law Review
A1  - Kingsbury, Benedict
A1  - Casini, Lorenzo
N2  - Several important legal features of the contemporary practice of international organizations (IOs) are not easily accommodated in standard approaches to international organizations law. This article argues that Global Administrative Law (GAL) approaches may strengthen analysis of operational issues such as emergency actions by IOs and the human rights implications of IO activities, structural issues such as the involvement of IOs in field missions and in public-private partnerships, and normative issues concerning the production and effects of non-treaty regulatory instruments by IOs (guidelines, best practices, national policy assessments, and other documents rather amorphously analyzed under the 'soft law' rubric). In examining these activities as forms of administration (broadly understood), subject to precepts of good administration and legal standards concerning transparency, participation, reason-giving, review, and accountability, a GAL perspective provides a basis both for critique of problematic practices, and for increasing the effectiveness and legitimacy of some beneficial IO activities which are contentious or currently not undertaken. GAL also responds to the proliferation and differentiation of IOs and other entities in global governance through applying legal standards to their interactions, bringing a principled 'inter-public' approach to the legal relations among global public entities. GAL provides a valuable, and thus far overly neglected, addition to the field of international institutional law.
IS  - 2
AV  - none
KW  - Field operations
KW  -  Accountability
KW  -  Normative fragmentation
KW  -  International organizations
KW  -  Public and private partnerships
KW  -   Emergency powers
KW  -  International institutional law
KW  -  Human rights.
TI  - Global Administrative Law Dimensions of International Organizations Law
UR  - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157237409x12670188734311
SP  - 319
ID  - eprints3003
EP  - 358
ER  -