Abstract
The globalization of administration is the most interesting thing happening in both administrative and international law. Richard Stewart’s article in the April 2014 issue of the American Journal of International Law is a brilliant tour of the horizon of the problems and prospects of this sort of lawmaking. It reflects the work he has done, along with Benedict Kingsbury, as a member of the Global Administrative Law (GAL) Project, housed at New York University Law School and joined by academics all over the world. I am a GAL fellow traveler, if not a paid member, and so I found the paper necessary. Global coordination is setting the standards for national administration in a vast array of issue areas, and surely is the most vibrant and rapidly developing form of international governance. It needs both organization and problematizing, and in this article, Stewart offers both.
Highlights
The globalization of administration is the most interesting thing happening in both administrative and international law
Reviews the extent of global administrative law
Claims that despite the diverse sorts of authorizations of the bodies—which come from treaties, from the domestic procedures undertaken by members of global regulatory networks, or from the quality of regulations issued by private standard setters— they can usefully be understood as a common phenomenon of cross-border lawmaking
Summary
The globalization of administration is the most interesting thing happening in both administrative and international law. Stewart has thought carefully about the ways to either encapsulate or solve the problems of the phenomenon, and by exploring both he has created a reference to which future work will turn when the parameters of global regulation are the subject.
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