Informal International Law-Making
This multidisciplinary project is selected on the basis of ‘double blind’ peer review. The project is led by seasoned academics. The project will generate a unique inventory of the existing informal international law-making processes and will result in recommendations for increasing accountability and legitimacy of these processes. The project is executed in close cooperation with practice.
Project Leaders
- Prof. Joost H.B. Pauwelyn
Professor of International Economic Law and WTO Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva - Dr Gabrielle Marceau
Top lawyers at the WTO and an Associate Professor at Geneva University Law School - Prof. Jan Wouters
Professor of International Law and the Law of International Organizations and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and the Institute for International Law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Prof. Ramses A. Wessel
Professor of the Law of the European Union and other International Organizations and Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
Researchers
- Dr Manfred Elsig - Graduate Institute, Geneva
- Prof. Andrea Bianchi - Graduate Institute, Geneva
- Prof. Cedric Dupont - Graduate Institute, Geneva
- Dr Theresa Carpenter - Graduate Institute, Geneva
- Dr Lorenzo Casini - La Sapienza University, Rome
- Dr Shawn Donnelly - University of Twente, Enschede
See also
- Project website: www.informallaw.org
- Democratic and accountable forms of informal international law-making
Total budget: €360,000
HiiL financial support: €200,000
Matching: €160,000
Duration: September 2009 – October 2011
The project is also supported by:
- Graduate Institute’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
- Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies
- University of Twente
Contact Information
Prof. Joost H.B. Pauwelyn | Project Leader
Joost.Pauwelyn@graduateinstitute.ch
Video message | 2011 Law of the Future Conference
Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute, Geneva) talks as project leader about HiiL Research project Informal International Law-Making during the 2011 Law of the Future Conference in The Hague.