The Law of Global Governance.

Intro -- The Law of Global Governance -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I. Introduction -- Chapter II. The emergence of global governance and the corresponding need to regulate it -- 2.1. The evolution of diverse forms of global governance -- 2.1.1. International Governmental Organization (IGOs) -- 2.1.2. The flight from IGOs -- 2.2. Direct administration over people and territory -- 2.3. Unilateral global governance -- 2.4. The functions of law in regulating global governance -- 2.4.2. A brief note on terminology and focus -- 2.4.3. How is global administrative law being created and shaped ? -- 2.4.4. The functions of global administrative law theory -- Chapter III. The normative basis for the law regulating global governance institutions -- 3.1. The ultra vires (or excès de pouvoir) doctrine as a potential source of procedural obligations -- 3.1.1. First layer: IGOs have an independent legal personality -- 3.1.2. Second layer: the loosely limited powers of IGOs -- 3.1.3. Third layer: IGO immunities and the unclear legal consequences of ultra vires acts -- 3.2. Human rights law as a source of procedural obligations -- 3.2.1. Human rights law is a source of procedural obligations -- 3.2.2. To whom do global bodies owe human rights-based obligations ? To all who are affected by them ? -- 3.3. Trusteeship obligations of global governance bodies -- 3.3.1. Sovereignty as responsibility and the State's obligation to render account to outsiders -- 3.3.2. Implications for global governance bodies -- 3.4. conclusions: the implications for positive law -- Chapter IV. Legal regulation of the decision-making process within global governance bodies -- 4.1. The decision-maker -- 4.1.1. Internal authority -- 4.1.2. Independence -- 4.1.3. Impartiality and open mindedness -- 4.2. The regulation of the decision-making process.

4.2.1. Transparency and public participation -- 4.2.2. The right to be heard -- 4.2.3. Who has the right to be heard ? attention to the "all affected principle" -- 4.3. The regulation of the exercise of discretion -- 4.3.1. A properly grounded decision -- 4.3.2. Weighing all and only relevant considerations -- 4.3.3. Equal treatment and the protection of basic rights -- 4.3.4. Balancing and proportionality -- 4.4. The institutional dimension: can power masquerade as law ? -- Chapter V. The potential and limits of global regulation of sovereign discretion -- 5.1. Background: the variety of modalities for intervention in sovereign discretion -- 5.2. Justifications for intervention in domestic discretion -- 5.2.1. State consent and its limitations -- 5.2.2. Promoting global welfare through co-ordination and co-operation -- 5.2.3. Responding to democratic failures -- 5.2.4. How can global governance bodies redress the challenges to democracy ? -- 5.2.5. Countervailing considerations -- 5.3. Factors determining the proper standard of review by international tribunals -- Chapter VI. Reviewing global governance -- 6.1. Why review ? -- 6.1.1. Intrinsic justification: review as a right -- 6.1.2. Intrinsic justification: facilitating democratic deliberation -- 6.1.3. Instrumental justifications: legitimacy, effectiveness, just and equitable outcomes -- 6.2. What are the possible legal bases for review ? -- 6.2.1. Internal inconsistency with the IGO's own norms -- 6.2.2. Incompatibility with the reviewer's norms -- 6.2.3. Incompatibility with a general norm -- 6.3. Who is reviewing whom? -- 6.3.1. Internal review mechanisms -- 6.3.2. Peer review -- 6.3.3. Review by national actors -- 6.3.4. Civil society -- 6.4. The proper standard of review -- Chapter VII. Conclusion -- Table of cases -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Biographical note.

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Also available as an e-book The book argues that the decision-making processes within international organizations and other global governance bodies ought to be subjected to procedural and substantive legal constraints that are associated domestically with the requirements of the rule of law. The book explains why law -- international, regional, domestic, formal or soft -- should restrain global actors in the same way that judicial oversight is applied to domestic administrative agencies. It outlines the emerging web of global norms designed to protect the rights and interests of all affected individuals, to enable public deliberation, and to promote the legitimacy of the global bodies. These norms are being shaped by a growing convergence of expectations of global institutions to ensure public participation and representation, impartiality and independence of decision-makers, and accountability of decisions. The book explores these mechanisms as well as the political and social forces that are shaping their development by analysing the emerging judicial practice concerning a variety of institutions, ranging from the UN Security Council and other formal organizations to informal and private standard-setting bodies.

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