Global Networks and Shared Administration

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This chapter considers global networks and shared administration, both of which are central for an understanding of global administrative law. The discussion begins with an overview of some of the literature concerning regulatory networks. The focus then shifts to consideration of shared administration. Thus while regulatory networks have proliferated at the global level the legal and practical reality is that most operate through forms of shared administration at the regional and/or national level. The nature of this shared administration perforce varies depending on the particular global regime, but an understanding of its modalities is crucial when thinking about the role of global administrative law. This is exemplified in parts four and five of the chapter, which analyze the regime of shared administration as it pertains to the WTO regime and that of international standard setting, drawing out the practical and normative implications for administrative law. The very fact that so much global regulatory activity broadly conceived is operationalized through some form of shared administration leads naturally to the last part of the chapter, which considers the role that national administrative law may play in rendering such global activity accountable.

Authors: Craig, P

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Host title: Research Handbook on Global Administrative Law
• Pages: 153-174
• Publication date: 2016-02-27
• ISBN-10: 1783478462
• ISBN-13: 9781783478453
• Keywords: Law