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creators_name: Kingsbury, Benedict
creators_name: Casini, Lorenzo
creators_id: 
creators_id: lorenzo.casini@imtlucca.it
title: Global Administrative Law Dimensions of International Organizations Law
ispublished: pub
subjects: JX
subjects: K1
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: Field operations, Accountability, Normative fragmentation, International organizations, Public and private partnerships,  Emergency powers, International institutional law, Human rights.
abstract: 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.
date: 2009
date_type: published
publication: International Organizations Law Review
volume: 6
number: 2
publisher: Brill
pagerange: 319-358
id_number: 10.1163/157237409X12670188734311
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1572-3739
official_url: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157237409x12670188734311
related_url_url: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539564
related_url_type: org
citation:   Kingsbury, Benedict and Casini, Lorenzo  Global Administrative Law Dimensions of International Organizations Law.  International Organizations Law Review, 6 (2).  pp. 319-358.  ISSN 1572-3739      (2009)