International Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
Global Administrative Law Project
The Project on the Administrative Law Frontier in Global Governance focuses on global administrative law—a significant emerging field of law and practice that synthesizes traditional international and administrative law disciplines. New systems of administrative procedures, review mechanisms, and decisional principles have arisen to promote greater accountability in decision-making by the rapidly proliferating variety of global regulatory administrative bodies. These developments encompass formal international organizations (such as the WTO, the Security Council, World Bank, the Climate Change regime, etc), informal intergovernmental networks of domestic regulatory officials (such as the Basel Committee of national bank regulators), domestic authorities implementing global regulatory law, and hybrid public-private and purely private international regulatory regimes. The project examines the new structures of administrative law that have arisen in these different institutional contexts, and their normative dimensions, including regime integrity, protection of subjects' rights and promotion of democratic values. It also seeks to identify and promote practical law reform steps to improve global environmental governance. The project is being carried out with the Institute for International Law and Justice and is directed by Professors Benedict Kingsbury and Richard B. Stewart at New York University School of Law. The project is engaged in the systematic study of this new field of law through research, conferences, and publications and seeks to promote global collaboration and dialogue in this enterprise, engaging academics, national and international officials, and practitioners. NYU students are
Project on International Regulatory Conflicts Over Genetically Modified Crops and Foods.
Global conflicts in trade and regulation of bioengineered foods and crops containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being addressed through a multi-year research project by the Center's Program on International Environmental Law under the leadership of Professor Stewart. The Project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, involves NYU students as well as researchers from 11 countries around the world. The Project is issuing an extensive report analyzing the roots of the conflict and ways of managing international GMO regulatory conflicts to minimize damage to the international trade governance system and ensure that countries, especially developing countries, have the legal and other capacities to make informed judgments about the appropriate role of GMO agricultural technologies.
Project on International Regulatory Conflicts Over Genetically Modified Crops and Foods.
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