Who governs? Delegations and delegates in global trade lawmaking

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6377338
AutoresTerence C Halliday, Josh Pacewicz (0000-0002-1438-1786), Susan Block‐lieb
Ano2013
Volume7
Fascículo3
Páginas279-298
Data de publicação2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRegulation & Governance (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1748-5983 • E-ISSN: 1748-5991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rego.12010
OpenAlexW1939373035
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas26

Who governs in the international organizations (IOs) that promulgate global norms on trade and commercial law? Using a new analytic approach, this paper focuses on previously invisible attributes of a global legislature – the state and non‐state delegations and delegates that create universal norms for international trade and commercial law through the most prominent trade law legislature, the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Based on ten years of fieldwork, extensive interviews, and unique data on delegation and delegate attendance and participation in UNCITRAL's Working Group on Insolvency, we find that the inner core of global trade lawmakers at UNCITRAL represent a tiny and unrepresentative subset of state and non‐state actors. This disjunction between UNCITRAL's public face, which accords with a global norm of democratic governance, and its private face, where dominant states and private interests prevail, raises fundamental questions about legitimacy and efficacy of representation in global lawmaking

Delegate · Delegation · Democracy · Global governance · International trade law · Law and economics · Lawmaking · Legislature · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law · Public Administration · World Trade Organization Law