International Law and International Organizations:
the United Nations and International Financial Institutions
NYU Law School has attached major importance to scholarly and policy work on the United Nations since 1945. Many of Professor Thomas Franck's 30+ books deal with UN legal issues, as do major works of Professors Andreas Lowenfeld and Theodor Meron. The IILJ continues this strong tradition.
Security Council and the Rule of Law
A major report was the culmination of a series of panel discussions on "The Role of the Security Council in Strengthening a Rules-Based International System", convened by the Permanent Mission of Austria to the UN and the IILJ.
Role of the UN Secretary General
Various IILJ publications regarding this topic.
In March 2009, the conference Practical Legal Problems of International Organizations: A Global Administrative Law Perspective on Public/Private Partnerships, Accountability, and Human Rights was held in Geneva, Switzerland. A selection of the contributions presented at this conference will be published in the International Organizations Law Review.
Professor Benedict Kingsbury and a group of colleagues and students are working with the World Bank on issues concerning states at risk, crises, and emergency powers of international organizations, in connection with the World Development Report 2011.
Recent publications by IILJ faculty on UN issues include:
Simon Chesterman, Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Adam Roberts and Benedict Kingsbury, "Introduction: The UN’s Roles in International Society", in Roberts and Kingsbury eds, United Nations, Divided World (Chinese edition, 2009), pp. 1-64.
Benedict Kingsbury and Richard Stewart, Legitimacy and Accountability in Global Regulatory Governance: The Emerging Global Administrative Law and the Design and Operation of Administrative Tribunals of International Organizations, in Spyridon Flogaitis ed., International Administrative Tribunals in a Changing World (London: Esperia, 2009).
Henry J. Steiner, Philip Alston, Ryan Goodman, International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials (Oxford University Press, 2008) 3rd ed
