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Book SynopsisThis pioneering Research Handbook with contributions from renowned experts, provides an overview of the general doctrines making up the law of international organizations.
Trade Review’This coherent and rich publication is of relevance to the practitioner, as well as the academic and the advanced student.’ -- Gregor Schusterschitz, ZÖR Journal of Public Law
’Each chapter offers an up-to-date, concise discussion of a highly relevant topic, enriched with a wealth of references to source materials. As such, this book is a highly convenient starting point for research on current issues relating to international organizations and is recommended to academics and practitioners alike.’ -- Eckhard Hellbeck, American Society for International Law
’[T]his Research Handbook
on the law of international organisations is certainly a must-have for any serious student of international organisations. . . it is an unprecedented and systematic effort at presenting the state of the art of the legal research on international organisations, with an original perspective, that of the functionalism v. constitutionalism debate.’ -- Nicolas Hachez, Common Market Law Review
Table of ContentsContents: 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 Index
