The Exercise of Public
Authority by International Institutions: Advancing International Institutional
Law
Armin von Bogdandy, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Jochen von Bernstorff - Springer, 2009
This book develops a framework for the
legal analysis of global governance phenomena. Today, international institutions
are responsible for more and more governance activities which cover a wide range
of issue areas and which affect individuals and governments alike. So far, there
exists no legal, doctrinal approach to such phenomena. The dominant social
science approach is unsatisfactory from a normative standpoint: it does not
allow to single out those activities on the part of international institutions
which compromise individual or collective self-determination. To this end, the
book proposes the concept of "international public authority." In a series of
thematic studies, it identifies important hard and soft mechanisms that
constitute unilateral exercises of power by the institutions of global
governance. Cross-cutting analyses single out procedural and substantive
principles which could become the corner stones of the further development of
international institutional law
