Craig, Paul --- "Global networks and shared administration" [2016] ELECD 412; in Cassese, Sabino (ed), "Research Handbook on Global Administrative Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 153

Book Title: Research Handbook on Global Administrative Law

Editor(s): Cassese, Sabino

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783478453

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Global networks and shared administration

Author(s): Craig, Paul

Number of pages: 20

Abstract/Description:

This chapter considers global networks and shared administration, both of which are central for an understanding of Global Administrative Law. The discussion begins with an overview of some of the literature concerning regulatory networks. The focus then shifts to consideration of shared administration. Thus, while regulatory networks have proliferated at the global level, the legal and practical reality is that most operate through forms of shared administration at the regional and/or national level. The nature of this shared administration perforce varies depending on the particular global regime, but an understanding of its modalities is crucial when thinking about the role of Global Administrative Law. This is exemplified in Sections 4 and 5, which analyse the regime of shared administration as it pertains to the World Trade Organization (WTO) regime and that of international standard setting, drawing out the practical and normative implications for administrative law. The very fact that so much global regulatory activity broadly conceived is operationalized through some form of shared administration leads naturally to the last part of the chapter, which considers the role that national administrative law may play in rendering such global activity accountable. Global networks have been the focus of increased interest and research in recent years. Thus, Anne-Marie Slaughter, working from an international relations perspective, considers the way in which networks have transformed the global political order: Terrorists, arms dealers, money launderers, drug dealers, traffickers in women and children, and the modern pirates of intellectual property all operate through global networks.