Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Blokker: Constituent Instruments - Creating a Genie that May Escape from the Bottle?

Niels Blokker (Leiden Univ. - Law) has posted Constituent Instruments - Creating a Genie that May Escape from the Bottle? (in The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd & Ian Johnstone eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:
This paper presents an analysis of constituent instruments of international organizations. Following an overview of the different names of these instruments, their content and the parties to such instruments, the main part discusses the legal characteristics of constituent instruments and their interpretation. Particular emphasis is put on the creation of a new legal person and constitutional development through 'practice of the organization'.