Global Administrative Law and Deliberative Democracy
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This chapter attempts to bring ‘global administrative law’ (GAL) and democracy into conversation. It addresses two separate observations: first, that democracy currently lacks the tools to respond to the globalization and diffusion of political authority; and secondly, that GAL is not presently democratic—it has no room for democratic concerns in its emerging norms. As such, the chapter aims to give an overview of GAL and some of its contributions to international legal theory; explore the way in which GAL’s focus on innumerable capillary-level sites of power may open promising terrain for the instantiation of democracy beyond the state; consider how work on GAL can be enhanced by engaging with, and drawing ideas from, work on deliberative democracy; and note the rising impact and future potential of democratic striving in the practice of institutional entrepreneurship and GAL lawyering.
Source Publication
Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law
Source Editors/Authors
Anne Orford, Florian Hoffmann
Publication Date
2016
Recommended Citation
Kingsbury, Benedict; Donaldson, Megan; and Vallejo, Rodrigo, "Global Administrative Law and Deliberative Democracy" (2016). Faculty Chapters. 971.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/971
