Martin Shapiro

The building blocks for a future transnational and sometimes global administrative law are not difficult to identify, though there are quite a number. Some can be derived almost entirely from past U.S. experiences. The European Union, lying somewhere between an international treaty-based organization and a constitutional federalism, is particularly instructive—so, too, are the WTO and NAFTA, which share the free trade aspects of the E.U. Finally, parallel or converging developments in administration and its law in a number of advanced post-industrial states also are highly suggestive of future transnational developments.