Is There a Global Administrative Law?

Abstract

We are currently engaged in a very important intellectual exercise-no less important, indeed, than that undertaken by the 19th century “founding fathers” of public law, such as Laferrière in France, Gerber, Laband and Mayer in Germany, and Orlando and Romano in Italy. Scholars in New York, Rome, Heidelberg and elsewhere are working on a new area of legal theory and practice: that of global law. This scholarly work has three main features. It is, firstly, a truly global effort. Jurists from all over the world are engaged in such research, some providing in-depth analyses of individual global regimes, while others seek to deduce from the many and varied governance experiences a body of common principles and rules.

This paper offers some reflections on Armin von Bogdandy’s piece entitled “General Principles of International Public Authority: Sketching a Research Field”, in this volume. Thanks are due to Euan MacDonald, Mariangela Benedetti, Lorenzo Casini, Elisabetta Morlino, and Gianluca Sgueo for their comments.