The Analogy between States and International Organizations

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-15555-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 138, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

The book investigates how an analogy between States and international organizations has influenced and supported the development of the law that applies to intergovernmental institutions on the international plane. That is best illustrated by the work of the International Law Commission on the treaties and responsibility of international organizations, where the Commission for the most part extended to organizations rules that had been originally devised for States. Revisiting those codification projects while also looking into other areas, the book reflects on how techniques of legal reasoning can be - and have been - used by international institutions and the legal profession to tackle situations of uncertainty, and discusses the elusive position that international organizations occupy in the international legal system. By cutting across some foundational topics of the discipline, the book makes a substantive contribution to the literature on subjects and sources of international law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bordin, Fernando Lusa

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Select table of key documents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Case for an Analogy: 1. Analogy in international legal reasoning; 2. The foundations of the analogy between states and international organizations; Part II. Objections to the Analogy: 3. Structural differences between states and international organizations; 4. International organizations as 'special subjects'; 5. International organizations as 'layered subjects'; Part III. Limits of the Analogy: 6. Analogy in the relations between organizations and members; 7. Normative contestation of the analogy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bordin, Fernando Lusa
Fernando Lusa Bordin is a Thornely Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Sidney Sussex College and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on topics of public international law, including law-making, international organizations and the intersection between international law and legal theory. He holds an LL.B. from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), an LL.M. from New York University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of the Yorke Prize (University of Cambridge), Young Scholar Prize (International and Comparative Law Quarterly) and the Diploma of Public International Law (Hague Academy of International Law).