Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations

New chapter on judicial organs of international organizations; updated chapter on dispute settlement.

C. F. Amerasinghe (Author)

9780521545570, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 February 2005

574 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.75 kg

'… when the first edition of C. F. Amerasinghe's book on international organizations was published there was a gap in the literature on the topic. There was a need for an up-to-date book that could serve as a manageable guide to institutional law … The book … met the need so effectively that its structuring of institutional law is still today of some impact. … the merits of the book have been located in its general characterization of institutional law, in the identification of both possibilities and limits to the very idea of a law of organizations, and in pinpointing the relationship of institutional law to other areas of international law. … The first question that arises is why a revision is necessary. Amerasinghe answers this question himself. The ever increasing attention paid to judicial organs of organizations required including them into the book.' Netherlands International Law Review

The second edition of C. F. Amerasinghe's successful book, which covers the institutional aspects of the law of international organizations, has been revised to include, among other things, a new chapter on judicial organs of international organizations, as well as a considerably developed chapter on dispute settlement. There is a rigorous analysis of all the material alongside a functional examination of the law. A brief history of international organizations is followed by chapters on, amongst others, interpretation, membership and representation, international and national personality, judicial organs, the doctrine of ultra vires, liability of members to third parties, employment relations, dissolution and succession, and amendment. Important principles are extracted and discussed, and the practice of different organizations examined.

Preface
List of abbreviations
Table of cases
1. Introduction
2. Interpretation of texts
3. Legal personality
4. Membership and representation
5. Non-judicial organs of organizations
6. Acts of non-judicial organs: their legal effect
7. Acts of non-judicial organs: the doctrine of ultra vires
8. Judicial organs
9. The internal law: employment relations
10. Privileges and immunities
11. Financing
12. Responsibility to and of international organizations
13. The liability of member states vis-a-vis third parties
14. Amendment of constitutions
15. Dissolution and succession
16. The peaceful settlement of disputes
Index.

Subject Areas: International economic & trade law [LBBM]