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General Principles of International Public Authority: Sketching a Research Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

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The term principle is ubiquitous in the thematic studies and the cross-cutting studies of this research project on the exercise of public authority by international institutions. Apparently its legal analysis and normative framing is difficult to achieve without principles. This is no specificity of this undertaking: Legal research on the public authority of international institutions regularly deals with the issue of principles. General principles for all international institutions are of specific interest as they might tie the various institutions into one legal universe. Yet, precisely their variety, even heterogeneity raises the question if such principles can be anything but “stars which give little light because they are so high.” This quotation from Francis Bacon's “On the Advancement of Learning” precedes Edward Carr's classical study on the problems of a sweeping, principled and idealistic approach to international phenomena.

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