Introduction: Global Governance and Global Administrative Law in the International Legal Order

Law, expertise and legitimacy in transnational economic governance: an introduction

“…But there is also increasing recognition of the proliferation of transnational rule-making and institution-building-some of which has a law-like and quasi-judicial character-as well as of its relative effectiveness (Djelic and Sahlin-Anderson, 2006;Graz and Nölke, 2008). More controversially, the normative and empirical legitimacy of transnational governance arrangements has been discussed among scholars in the social sciences and legal studies (Bernstein, 2005;Krisch and Kingsbury, 2006;Hurrelmann et al, 2007). Many scholars have taken a pessimistic normative view and have highlighted the fact that transnational governance-particularly in the form of private self-regulation or stakeholder initiatives-lacks democratic legitimacy in terms of direct representation of and accountability to clearly defined national electorates or global publics (cf.…”

Tweets and Crumpets: Examining U.K. and U.S. Regulation of Athlete Endorsements and Social Media Marketing

“…Conversely, ignorance of the law is never a defense to violating the law. 71 Transparency in advertising is crucial to navigating international advertising laws, 72 and although the basis for the enforcement in both the U.K. and the U.S. is focused on whether advertising is misleading to consumers, the applications are quite different. Misleading advertising is essentially any advertising that deceives or is likely to deceive a consumer, and where such deception is likely to influence their purchase behavior.…”

Global governance vs empire: Why world order moves towards heterarchy and hierarchy

“…Beyond IR, this notion of a heterarchical global order has also gained currency in legal discourse, where authors influenced by the systems theory and administrative law have stressed the emergence of transnational legal structures based on contracts between transnational actors, on the coordination efforts of transgovernmental networks, or on the legal activities of international bureaucracies (Teubner 1997a, b;Krisch and Kingsbury 2006;Krisch 2010). Gunther Teubner's notions of a global law without a state and global legal pluralism (Teubner 1997a, b) exemplify this conception of a heterarchical order in which (powerful) transnational actors create a whole range of law-like structures that effectively order their relations with other actors.…”