Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T18:28:03.792Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Charting Proposals on International Norm Generation: Legitimacy and Politics in the UNCITRAL Working Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Claire R. Kelly*
Affiliation:
Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Poster Session
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 U.N. Comm’n on Int’l Trade Law [UNCITRAL], France’s Observations on UNCITRAL’s Working Methods, ¶ 2, U.N. Doc. A/CN.9/635, ¶ 3.1 (May 24, 2007) (discussing the expanded role of non-state actors); UNCITRAL Rules of Procedure and Methods of Work: Compilation of Comments by Governments (France), at 2-3, ¶ 2, U.N. Doc. A/CN.9/660 (May 28, 2008) (expressing concerns over broadening the meaning of consensus).

2 See UNCITRAL, UNCITRAL Rules of Procedure and Methods of Work: Observations by the United States, ¶ 9, U.N. Doc. A/CN.9/639 (Nov. 22, 2007) (stating that the current view of consensus is proper); id. ¶¶ 12-13 (discussing that expert participation is necessary due to the technical aspects of UNCITRAL’s work).

3 Kelly, Claire R. Legitimacy and Law-Making Alliances, 29 Mich. J. Int’l L. 605, 613 (2008)Google Scholar; Keohane, Robert O. & Nye, Joseph S. Jr., Between Centralization and Fragmentation: the Club Model of Multilateral Cooperation and Problems of Democratic Legitimacy 12-15 Google Scholar (Kennedy Sch. of Gov’t Working Paper Series, RWP01-004, 2001), available at <http://ksgnotesl.harvard.edu/research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/rwp01-004/$ile/rwp01_004_nye_revl.pdf> (discussing input legitimacy criteria).

4 Esty, Daniel C. Good Governance at the Supranational Scale: Globalizing Administrative Law, 115 Yale L. J. 1490, 1517 (2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.