Casini, Lorenzo --- "Global Administrative Law scholarship" [2016] ELECD 431; in Cassese, Sabino (ed), "Research Handbook on Global Administrative Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 548

Book Title: Research Handbook on Global Administrative Law

Editor(s): Cassese, Sabino

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783478453

Section: Chapter 26

Section Title: Global Administrative Law scholarship

Author(s): Casini, Lorenzo

Number of pages: 25

Abstract/Description:

Globalization has exacerbated the inability of States to operate in isolation, fostering the formation of international and supranational levels of regulation. The number of international institutions – which has now exceeded 60,000 – began growing after World War II and is still rising today; the relations between State administrations and international institutions are multiplying; and new forms of global networks and global ‘administrations’ have been developing (as shown in Chapters 1 and 2). Consequently, legal scholars across the world have been studying supranational phenomena from various perspectives and through different lenses (Introduction). The most prominent lawyers have engaged in an ambitious scientific enterprise having the aim of discovering the most suitable approach for framing, understanding and explaining the legal implications of globalization. Within this framework, the ‘gentle civilizer’ as such soon appeared inadequate for the challenge, mostly because of the need for an interdisciplinary method, which the global dimension of the legal problems necessarily mandates. The result was that legal scholars worldwide began to cooperate with each other, thus triggering phenomena of mimesis and transplants between different fields and disciplines.