Informal International Law-Making
Mapping the Action and Testing Concepts of Accountability and Effectiveness
This project is empirical and multidisciplinary. International cooperation is taking place at a scope and in a variety of forms never witnessed before. Yet, are people and democratically elected politicians losing their grip on this cooperation? Is this cooperation increasingly escaping the needed constraints of both domestic and international law, and somehow falling between the two into some sort of “accountability gap”?
Answers and progress on this pressing societal problem must be empirically grounded, based on an examination of what is actually happening, and subsequently tested with cutting edge theories from all of the relevant academic disciplines. This is what this project will do, with the aim of providing a concrete map of the action and specific proposals for reform where needed.
For more information, please see the Project Framing Paper.
The project is also supported by:
- The Graduate Institute’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
- The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
- The University of Twente
Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute, Geneva) talks as project leader about the HiiL Research project Informal International Law-Making during the 2011 Law of the Future Conference in The Hague.