About the Project…

This project begins with the observation that the way in which interactions happen in the global administrative space seems important and under-theorized. There may be some practical pay-offs to studying interactions, rather than institutions in isolation.

At the outset, the idea in throwing the net widely is to capture five types of institutional interaction:

1. Horizontal: Interactions between institutions that are international actors.
2. Vertical: Interactions between international and national institutions, where the latter is a member of the international body.
3. Diagonal: Interactions between an international institution and a national one where the national body is not a member.
4. Interactions between institutions from different countries.
5. Relationships between different national institutions in the same country.

Following these five dimensions, we can ask several questions about institutional interaction, including, in particular, questions about: management of interactions, the relationship between interaction and institutional change, the effects of interaction, and the consequences of interaction for law.

See also: GAL Network Page

Prior Events

November 17-18, 2014, NYU School of Law, New York

Global Institutions and Technologies in the Governance of Illicit Activity: Measurement, Data, Indicators and Quantification

May 30-31, 2013
Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Boston MA

• Panel on Global Private Governance: Power and Norm Generation in Inter-Institutional Relations
• Panel on Inter-Institutional Evaluation through the Use of Indicators

April 9, 2013

Workshop on Technologies and Effects of Inter-Institutional Interaction, Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, New York University School of Law

April 16, 2012

Analyzing and Shaping Inter-Institutional Relations in Global Governance, Faculty Club, D’Agostino Hall, New York University School of Law