Research report 2010 - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

The architecture of gobal governance: International public authority as a challenge for international law

Authors
Goldmann, Matthias; Venzke, Ingo
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg
Summary
International institutions have become influential players in almost all relevant policy areas. Though they often do not possess traditional powers of law enforcement, many of their measures can still be understood as exercises of public authority. This development confronts public law with the task of developing standards for these new forms of public authority in order to ensure their consistency with basic requirements of democratic legitimacy and the rule of law. A project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg deals with these questions.

For the full text, see the German version.

Zur Redakteursansicht