Foreword
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Description
This collection of papers on public law issues relating to Global Administrative Law brings to English language readers the ideas and approaches of legal scholars in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The collection has its foundations in the fruitful Ibero-American Forum of Administrative Law, an initiative currently led jointly by the book's editors, Jaime Rodríguez-Arana in Spain and Javier Robalino Orellana in Ecuador. Global (or at least transnational) regulatory governance has a long history. For example, formally-organized attempts to manage transnational spread of diseases began to be institutionalized with the series of International Sanitary Conferences beginning in 1851, and legal instruments such as the International Sanitary Convention (concerning cholera) of 1892. Basic transnational worker-protection regulation extended from anti-slavery to wider measures, such as the 1906 Berne Convention against the use of white phosphorous in matches, followed by the founding in 1920 of the International Labour Organization. The Bank for International Settlements was founded in 1930, and the International Monetary Fund with tough regulatory authority on exchange rates and balance of payments issues was created along with the World Bank in 1945. However, the rapid growth in global regulatory governance in recent decades, and the heightened impact of such regulatory rules and institutions because of rising global trade and investment flows, has begun to pose qualitatively new challenges of international and national politics and law.
Source Publication
Global Administrative Law: Towards a Lex Administrativa
Source Editors/Authors
Javier Robalino-Orellana, Jaime Rodríguez-Arana Muñoz
Publication Date
2010
Recommended Citation
Kingsbury, Benedict, "Foreword" (2010). Faculty Chapters. 983.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/983
