Advanced Introduction to Global Administrative Law

135 Pages·2021·1.649 MB·English

by  Sabino Cassese

Advanced Introduction to Global Administrative Law
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Advanced Introduction to
Global
Administrative
Law
SABINO CASSESE
Professor of Global Law, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Justice Emeritus
of the Italian Constitutional Court and Professor Emeritus, Scuola Normale
Superiore of Pisa, Italy
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Contents
1 In the labyrinth of globalization 1
1.1 From the “international” to the “global” 1
1.2 The world was “born global” 3
1.3 Resurgence of the state, or globalization? 4
1.4 The interplay of global problems and national policies 10
1.5 The benefits and imbalances produced by
globalization 12
1.6 The system of global powers 16
1.7 About this book 17
2 The global legal space at a glance 19
2.1 Lawmaking, administration and jurisdiction 19
2.2 The shape of the global legal space 20
2.3 Global standards and cooperation 23
2.4 The global executive bodies 25
2.5 Global courts 26
2.6 Is there a global democratic deficit? 27
3 The global legal space in detail 28
3.1 The rapid development of the global legal space 28
3.2 States and global networks: a multilevel ordering? 28
3.3 Rulers without a government 30
3.4 The empire of “adhocracy” 32
3.5 An absolute government? 33
3.6 Judicial globalization 34
3.7 The global constitution 37
3.8 The globalization of democracy 38
3.9 Cui prodest? 40
4 Administrative globalization 41
4.1 Globalization today 41
4.2 An “administrative” form of globalization 42
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4.3 T he global regulators/national administrations
dialectic 43
4.4 The chameleon state 44
5 The global administrative machine 45
5.1 Global actors and their networks 45
5.2 How the global administrative machine works 47
6 Regulation, adjudication and dispute settlement beyond the
state 53
6.1 The globalization of regulation 53
6.2 Global adjudication 57
6.3 Settling disputes through courts 58
7 National administrative cultures and global regulators 61
7.1 T ransplanting national institutions into the global
space 61
7.2 T he origins and the evolution of international
secretariats 63
7.3 T he establishment and development of the
International Civil Service Commission 66
8 The international role of domestic bureaucracies 69
8.1 T he impact of globalization on national
bureaucracies 69
8.2 T he distribution of international affairs among
national agencies 71
8.3 T he permanent missions as brokers between national
and international administrations 72
9 Global administrative law: the principles 74
9.1 Does a global rule of law exist? 74
9.2 Administrative law in the liberal state 75
9.3 The right to be heard in global administrative law 76
9.4 The global duty to give reasons 77
9.5 Global judicial review 78
9.6 T he development, limits and original features of the
global rule of law 80
10 Global administrative law: the implementation of
principles 82
10.1 Is international law immature? 82
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10.2 The pervasiveness and complexity of legal
globalization: five cases 83
10.3 The rule of law at national and global levels 90
11 Towards global justice and democracy? 92
11.1 Public authority in modern legal systems 92
11.2 Quod omnes tangit, ab omnibus approbetur 93
11.3 Does legal globalization reduce democracy? 93
11.4 Fundamental rights between global law and state law 95
12 National governments and globalization 98
12.1 The end of states? 98
12.2 The system of world powers 98
12.3 States in the globalized world 99
12.4 The erosion of the state: an irreversible trend? 100
12.5 The state reacts 103
12.6 In conclusion 105
Further reading 109
Index 119
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1
In the labyrinth of globalization1
1.1 From the “international” to the “global”
Traditionally, beyond the law of the state, there existed the body of law
known as jus gentium (or jus inter gentes). This definition survives in
the German term Völkerrecht, but was eventually replaced by the word
“international”, coined by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham.2
Bentham used the term to indicate interactions between one nation
and another (both of which are sovereign).
The international legal space has long been considered as a source of
“higher” law due to the medieval notion of imperium romanum, which
persists to the modern era. With the development of nation-states and
the concept of state sovereignty, international law became a transac-
tional law, that is, one resulting from agreements – either conventions
or treaties – b etween states. A sharp divide between domestic law and
international law was thus established.3
By the beginning of the twentieth century, and especially after World
War I, a wealth of new concepts and words had emerged:
1. international administrative law, meaning the law relating to
international unions, in the early phase of their history;4
1 I wish to thank Bruno Carotti, Martina Conticelli, Maurizia De Bellis, Elisa D’Alterio, Elisabetta
Morlino and Valentina Volpe for their comments on a previous version of this book and Sarah
Pasetto for her linguistic and editorial work.
2 J. Bentham, Principles of International Law, Bowring Edition of Bentham’s Works, vol. 2, 1843.
3 H. Triepel, Völkerrecht und Landesrecht, Leipzig, C.L. Hirschfeld, 1899 (Italian translation, Turin,
1913).
4 The German and Italian debates on the concepts of international administrative law and
administrative international law are summarized in U. Borsi, “Carattere ed oggetto del diritto
amministrativo internazionale” (1912) Rivista di diritto internazionale 368 ff. See also Y. Okitsu,
“International Administrative Law, a Precursor of Global Administrative Law?”, in J.B. Auby
(ed.), Le futur du droit administratif, Paris, LexisNexis, pp. 445 ff; S. Battini, “International
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