Constructing the Powers of International Institutions

Engstrom (constitutional and international law, Abo Akademi U., Finland) explores the legal reasoning underlying arguments about implied and attributed powers in international organizations, with the United Nations, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization serving as reoccurring examples. He considers the doctrines of implied and attributed powers from two different perspectives: a historical context that traces the development of international case law alongside more general ideological shifts in the perception of organizations and the two doctrines as a means for promoting different visions of an organization, expressed both as clashes between the two doctrines as well as disagreements arising over the meaning of the doctrines individually. Martinus Nijhoff is an imprint of Brill. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Viljam Engstrom, Ph.D. (2009) in International Law, Abo Akademi University, is University Teacher of Constitutional Law and International Law at Abo Akademi University. Recent publications include articles such as: Powers of Organizations and the Many Faces of Autonomy (in Collins and White, Routledge, 2010), and How to Tame the Elusive: Lessons from the Revision of the EU Flexibility Clause (in IOLR 2010).