The Law of Global Governance

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, format or soit - 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 aIl affeeted individuels, to enable public deliberation, and to promote the legitimacy of the global bodies. These norms are bcing 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 formai organizations to informai and private standard-setting bodies.

Eyal Benvenisti, Anny and Paul Yanowicz, Professor of Human Rights, teaches inter-national law and constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University. He is also a Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, a member associé of the Institut de droit inter-national, and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law.