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Research Handbook On The Law Of International Organizations

Research Handbook On The Law Of International Organizations

Author: Jan Klabbers; Åsa Wallendahl
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9780857931252
Published In: September 2012
Format: Paperback , 544 pages
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‘This timely book, with carefully selected contributions from many eminent international law scholars and practitioners, offers a rich theoretical as well as practical approach to understanding contemporary international organizations, especially in light of increased emphasis on issues of reform, constitutionalism and globalization. It speaks to key issues in the field with erudition and clarity. Among the issues comprehensively discussed are: personality, privileges and immunities, responsibility, decision-making procedures and dissolution and succession of international organizations. This book will be of great utility not only to international organizations and their staff, but also to academics, policy makers and those concerned with the very important and specialized field of international organizations law.’
– Edward Kwakwa, World Intellectual Property Organization

This pioneering Research Handbook with contributions from renowned experts, provides an overview of the general doctrines making up the law of international organizations.

The approach of this book is taken from a novel perspective: that of the tension between functionalism and constitutionalism. In doing so, this Handbook presents not only practically relevant information, but also provides a tool for understanding the ways in which international organizations work. It has separate chapters on specific ‘constitutional’ topics and on two specific organizations: the EU and the UN.

Research Handbook on the Law of International Organizations will be of particular interest to academics and graduate students in the fields of international law, international politics and international relations.

Preface
Jan Klabbers and Åsa Wallendahl

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Contending Approaches to International Organizations: Between Functionalism and Constitutionalism
Jan Klabbers

PART II: GENERAL ISSUES
2. Personality of International Organizations
Tarcisio Gazzini

3. Reasoning on Powers of Organizations
Viljam Engström

4. Membership in International Organizations
Konstantinos D. Magliveras

5. Financing International Institutions
Thordis Ingadóttir

6. Privileges and Immunities
August Reinisch

7. International Organiazations – Institutions and Organs
Inger Österdahl

8. International Organizations as Law-makers
Jan Wouters and Philip De Man

9. Decision-making
Nigel D. White

10. Dispute Settlement
Kirsten Schmalenbach

11. International Organizations and Treaties: Contractual Freedom and Institutional Constraint
Catherine Brölmann

12. Preparing Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations: Does the International Law Commission Take International Organizations Seriously? A Mid-term Review
Niels M. Blokker

13. Dissolution and Succession: The Transmigration of the Soul of International Organizations
Ramses A. Wessel

PART III: SPECIAL ISSUES
14. Ultra Vires Acts of International Organizations
Enzo Cannizzaro and Paolo Palchetti

15. Deformalization of International Organizations Law
Jarna Petman

16. Reflections on Institutional Design – Especially Treaty Bodies
Geir Ulfstein

17. The EU as (More Than) an International Organization
Joxerramon Bengoetxea

18. The United Nations
Sabine von Schorlemer

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