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Author
Title
The law of global governance / Eyal Benvenisti.
Published
[The Hague] : Hague Academy of International Law, 2014.
Call Number
KZ4850 .B46 2014
ISBN
9004279113
9789004279117
9789004279117
Description
331 pages ; 18 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)881440556
Note
"Full text of the lecture published in the Recueil des cours, volume 368"--Page 2.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-326).
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Table of Contents
ch. I
Introduction
15
ch. II
The emergence of global governance and the corresponding need to regulate it
25
2.1.
The evolution of diverse forms of global governance
26
2.1.1.
International Governmental Organizations (IGOs)
27
2.1.2.
The flight from IGOs
37
2.2.
Direct administration over people and territory
69
2.3.
Unilateral global governance
72
2.4.
The functions of law in regulating global governance
76
2.4.1.
The need for regulating the global regulators
76
2.4.2.
A brief note on terminology and focus
79
2.4.3.
How is global administrative law being created and shaped?
80
2.4.4.
The functions of global administrative law theory
84
ch. III
The normative basis for the law regulating global governance institutions
87
3.1.
The ultra vires (or exces de pouvoir) doctrine as a potential source of procedural obligations
89
3.1.1.
First layer: IGOs have an independent legal personality
92
3.1.2.
Second layer: the loosely limited powers of IGOs
93
3.1.3.
Third layer: IGO immunities and the unclear legal consequences of ultra vires acts
96
3.2.
Human rights law as a source of procedural obligations
99
3.2.1.
Human rights law is a source of procedural obligations
99
3.2.2.
To whom do global bodies owe human rights-based obligations? To all who are affected by them?
114
3.3.
Trusteeship obligations of global governance bodies
117
3.3.1.
Sovereignty as responsibility and the State's obligation to render account to outsiders
121
3.3.2.
Implications for global governance bodies
136
3.4.
Conclusions: the implications for positive law
143
ch. IV
Legal regulation of the decision-making process within global governance bodies
145
4.1.
The decision-maker
146
4.1.1.
Internal authority
146
4.1.2.
Independence
151
4.1.3.
Impartiality and open mindedness
155
4.2.
The regulation of the decision-making process
158
4.2.1.
Transparency and public participation
158
4.2.2.
The right to be heard
166
4.2.3.
Who has the right to be heard? Attention to the 2all affected principle3
178
4.3.
The regulation of the exercise of discretion
185
4.3.1.
A properly grounded decision
187
4.3.2.
Weighing all and only relevant considerations
188
4.3.3.
Equal treatment and the protection of basic rights
191
4.3.4.
Balancing and proportionality
192
4.4.
The institutional dimension: can power masquerade as law?
196
ch. V
The potential and limits of global regulation of sovereign discretion
202
5.1.
Background: the variety of modalities for intervention in sovereign discretion
202
5.2.
Justifications for intervention in domestic discretion
207
5.2.1.
State consent and its limitations
208
5.2.2.
Promoting global welfare through co-ordination and co-operation
210
5.2.3.
Responding to democratic failures
215
5.2.4.
How can global governance bodies redress the challenges to democracy?
222
5.2.5.
Countervailing considerations
231
5.3.
Factors determining the proper standard of review by international tribunals
232
ch. VI
Reviewing global governance
240
6.1.
Why review?
240
6.1.1.
Intrinsic justification: review as a right
241
6.1.2.
Intrinsic justification: facilitating democratic deliberation
244
6.1.3.
Instrumental justifications: legitimacy, effectiveness, just and equitable outcomes
247
6.2.
What are the possible legal bases for review?
248
6.2.1.
Internal inconsistency with the IGO's own norms
249
6.2.2.
Incompatibility with the reviewer's norms
250
6.2.3.
Incompatibility with a general norm
251
6.3.
Who is reviewing whom?
252
6.3.1.
Internal review mechanisms
253
6.3.2.
Peer review
264
6.3.3.
Review by national actors
270
6.3.4.
Civil society
282
6.4.
The proper standard of review
282
ch. VII
Conclusion
286
Table of cases
288
Bibliography
297
About the author
327
Biographical note
327
Principal publications
327