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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Table of cases | |
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| A note on documentation | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An introductory textbook on institutional law | |
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| Critical legal theory | |
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| Trying to define international organizations | |
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| The layout of this book | |
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| The rise of international organizations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The rise of modern organizations | |
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| Classifying international organizations | |
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| Why co-operate? | |
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| Legal theory and international organizations | |
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| Discarding the functional necessity theory | |
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| Organizations and their members | |
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| The legal position of international organizations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Indicators of 'subjectivity' | |
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| Legal personality under domestic law | |
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| International legal personality | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| The foundations for the powers of organizations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The doctrine of attributed powers | |
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| The doctrine of implied powers | |
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| Reconciling the two doctrines | |
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| Inherent powers? | |
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| Implied powers under fire | |
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| Re-thinking powers? | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| International organizations and the law of treaties | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reservations | |
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| Revision | |
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| Withdrawal and termination | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| The power to interpret | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Issues of membership | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Membership | |
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| Other forms of membership? | |
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| State succession and membership | |
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| Representation | |
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| Termination of membership | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Financing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The politics of procedure | |
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| Expenditure | |
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| Problems and crises | |
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| Sources of income | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Privileges and immunities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The theoretical basis of privileges and immunities | |
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| Applicable law | |
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| Distinguishing rationales | |
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| The UN Convention | |
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| Headquarters Agreement | |
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| Other sources of law | |
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| Domestic law | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Institutional Structures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Regular organs | |
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| Some other bodies | |
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| Comitology | |
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| Creating organs | |
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| Limits? The Tadic case | |
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| Inter-relationship: hierarchy or not? | |
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| The position of member states | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Legal instruments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sketching the problem: the Mandate | |
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| Categories of instruments | |
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| Three theories of law-making | |
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| Non-binding instruments | |
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| EC instruments | |
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| Adopting conventions | |
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| Internal and household matters | |
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| Applying the law | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Decision making and judicial review | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Adopting legal instruments | |
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| European Community | |
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| Validity | |
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| Judicial review in the EC | |
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| Judicial review of Security Council Acts | |
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| Hierarchy between acts | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Dispute settlement | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The ICJ's advisory jurisdiction | |
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| Other tribunals within the UN system | |
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| Dispute settlement in the EC | |
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| Dispute settlement in other organizations | |
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| The Gatt/Wto system | |
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| Administrative tribunals | |
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| Alternatives | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Treaty-making by international organizations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The 1986 Vienna Convention | |
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| Treaty-making powers | |
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| The ties that bind | |
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| Mixed agreements | |
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| Organizational liaisons | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Issues of responsibility | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some preliminary issues | |
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| An illustration: the Tin Council litigation | |
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| Whose behaviour? | |
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| The wrongful act | |
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| Indirect and secondary responsibility | |
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| Policy arguments | |
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| Limited liability and legal personality | |
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| Piercing the corporate veil | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Dissolution and succession | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The modalities of dissolution | |
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| Dissolution | |
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| Succession: some basic issues | |
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| Assets and debts | |
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| Personnel | |
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| Functions | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Concluding remarks: Towards re-appraisal and control | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Organizations v. members: a zero-sum game? | |
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| Transgovernmentalism, civil society and formalism | |
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| Control | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |