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NYU Global Administrative Law Conference

Globalization is driving new patterns of governance: rapid growth in direct administration by international agencies, in hybrid transnational governance involving public and private actors, and in cooperative administrative arrangements where national agencies coordinate their policies or act pursuant to decisions taken in international institutions or informal international networks. Much of this global governance is regulatory: making detailed rules, making specific decisions about who gets what, making adjudicative judgments between competing interests. There is so far no unified sense of an administrative law for transnational governance and there are vast unmet problems of accountability, participation, and fairness in these areas of global governance. There already exist many little pieces of the jigsaw, but fragmented into different policy areas with very distinct communities involved, so that most participants have no occasion to debate or even to consider the big picture of how the administration of global governance does work or should work. The conditions now exist to create and shape a new field of global administrative law, encompassing transnational and national law and mechanisms, as one means to influence the way in which demands for accountability and participation in global governance can better be framed and met.

On the 22-23 April 2005, a major conference entitled "Global Administrative Law: National and International Accountability Mechanisms for Global Regulatory Governance" was held at NYU School of Law to discuss these issues, convened by the IILJ and the NYU Center on Environmental and Land Use Law. The aim of the Conference was to map the current fragmentary practice, and examine the almost uncharted possibilities and risks in developing a more unified global administrative law.

The Conference was co-sponsored by the ABA Section of Administrative Law, and the International Environmental Law Committees of the ABA Sections of International Law and Section of Environment, Energy & Resource (SEER). It was also a Centennial Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law, made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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A number of these papers have since been reworked and published either as IILJ Working Papers or as contributions to the GAL-specific journal symposia. Please check those pages for any later versions.

The Emergence of Global Administrative Law
Benedict Kingsbury, Nico Krisch and Richard B. Stewart

Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics
Ruth W. Grant & Robert O. Keohane

U.S. Administrative Law: A Model for Global Administrative Law?
Richard B. Stewart

Global Administrative Law: An Introduction
Sabino Cassese

The Globalization of Law
Sabino Cassese

Development Partners and Governance of Public Procurements in Kenya: Enhancing Democracy in the Administration of Aid
J. M. Migai Akech

The Impact of International Investment Treaties on Domestic Administrative Law
Rudolph Dolzer

A New Device for Creating International Legal Normativity: The WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement and 'International Standards'
Robert Howse

The Limited (and Sometimes Perverse) Contribution of the WTO to Global Administrative Law
Donald Regan

Managed Mutual Recognition Regimes: Governance without Global Government
Kalypso Nicolaidis & Gregory Schaffer

The Administrative Law of Global Private-Public Regulation: The Case of Forestry
Errol Meidinger

Accountability of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) in Global Governance
Steve Charnovitz