Improving the Legal Accountability of International Institutions to States - Comparing Constitutionalist and Global Administrative Law Approaches -

In spite of many recent innovations to enhance the accountability of international institutions, there exist few legal mechanisms for a member state of an international institution to hold it legally accountable. Inductively-oriented studies of global or “postnational” governance from the perspectives of Constitutionalism and Global Administrative Law (“GAL”) suggest that, through well-designed forms of independent institutional review, international institutions with a global scope can enhance accountability to Member States while also providing a stable framework for interaction between a regime and its own subjects. This article explores the views of scholars of the Constitutional approach to international law and GAL on forms of legal institutional review with a view to better designing international institutions.