International organizations have long been deemed to contribute to the ‘salvation of mankind’; thus, controlling their acts was not an issue. This has changed in recent decades: international lawyers have struggled to find legal techniques to facilitate control of the acts of international organizations, ranging from formulating rules on the responsibility of international organizations to a Global Administrative Law approach. The purpose of this lecture is to provide an overview of these various techniques, discuss their weaknesses, and propose an (embryonic) alternative.
Conference Room D, Temporary North Lawn Building (TNLB) UN Headquarters, New York