The Global Governance of Public Law
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This chapter examines the global governance of public law, taking the World Bank's Handbook for Evaluating Infrastructure Regulatory Systems as a case study. The Handbook exemplifies the efforts of global institutions to shape the institutions and content of national public law, not only in domains such as human rights, but in more technical, albeit highly political, areas of economic regulation. The chapter first considers the rhetorical techniques and conceptual apparatus evident in the Handbook, and particularly the invocation of a vocabulary of governance having affinities with both public law and more managerial discourses. It then asks to what extent the preparation of the Handbook, and evaluations for which it provides, might be made subject to public law principles, arguing that the Handbook illustrates both the potential and limits of two strands of thinking about public law beyond the state, ‘global administrative law’ and ‘international public authority’.
Source Publication
After Public Law
Source Editors/Authors
Cormac Mac Amhlaigh, Claudio Michelon, Neil Walker
Publication Date
2013
Recommended Citation
Donaldson, Megan and Kingsbury, Benedict, "The Global Governance of Public Law" (2013). Faculty Chapters. 975.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/975
