International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers

by Dan Sarooshi

Overview

This book provides a conceptual and legal analysis of one of the most important challenges facing international organizations today: their exercise of sovereign powers. The book examines the exercise of sovereign powers by organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, and the European Union. It makes a significant contribution to the content of the law that governs both the exercise of sovereign powers by international organizations and the relationships between organizations and their Member States. The book also tackles the fundamental question of what values should constrain international organizations in their exercise of sovereign powers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199283255
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2005
Series:	Oxford Monographs in International Law
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dr Dan Sarooshi is Herbert Smith Reader in International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Foreword
President and Judge Rosalyn Higgins:
Table of cases
Introduction
1:: International Organizations as a Forum for the Contestation of Sovereign Powers
2:: The Processes by which States Confer Powers on International Organizations
3:: Conferrals by States of Powers on International Organizations: A Typology
4:: Agency relationships between States and International Organizations
5:: The Delegation of Powers to International Organizations
6:: The Ceding of Powers to International Organizations
7:: Measures a State can Take Against an International Organization on which it has Conferred Powers
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This study confirms Professor Sarooshi as a leading writer today in the field of international organizations—a field in which he has immersed himself and taken on the challenge of its ever expanding and deepening nature. As with The United Nations and the Development of Collective Security, he has married impressive knowledge of detail with original conceptual thinking. The result is a book that is at once informative and challenging."
-Judge Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC, of the International Court of Justice

"The clarity and thoroughness of his analysis provides a firm foundation for the development of the law in this important area."
—Professor Vaughan Lowe and Emeritus Professor Ian Brownlie QC, Series Editors' Preface

"Professor Sarooshi has examined in rich detail the many modes by which national powers are being conferred, transferred or delegated to international organizations to the point that sovereignty itself has become a 'contestable' concept. This is an original and important book."
—Professor Michael Reisman, Yale Law School

"This may be the most important future terrain for international law generally, and will also certainly challenge some of the fundamental assumptions of general international law. This is a path breaking work that provides important insights which practitioners and scholars will need as the world struggles with change and circumstances creating enormous risks but also great opportunities in the wake of economic, political, and scientific forces beyond the traditional controls available to individual nation states."
—Professor John H. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center

"The backing of a renowned and acclaimed author like Dan Sarooshi will undoubtedly shore up the credibility of such a progressive proposal."
—Global Law Books

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