Principles of the institutional law of international organizations

This book is designed to meet a perceived need for a work of both an academic and practical nature, specifically on the institutional law of international organizations. While there is literature on organizational institutional law it either does not have an adequate academic orientation or is not sufficiently specialized. It is hoped that it will suit academics, practitioners and students, both graduate and undergraduate. I would like to thank particularly my friend. James Crawford, the current Whewell Professor of International Law, who assiduously and tirelessly read every word of the first draft of the book and made some valuable and constructive comments which have almost without exception been positively considered by me in the revision of the draft. The book is certainly much improved therefore. However, I take full responsibility for the research, analysis and views expressed. My gratitude is also extended to the Cambridge University Press and particularly to Regal Martin, for including this book as one of the first international law publications in the relaunched international and comparative Law Series , which was started by no other than judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht whose student I had the pleasure of being in his penultimate year as Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University, and for publishing the work expeditiously and attractively. My thanks go to my friends, Glenda Bunag and Eugenia Alvarez, who efficiently and without demur typed the manuscript on the computer. The views expressed in this book are mine and do not represent necessarily the views of the World Bank or the World Bank Tribunal.