Global Administrative Law is an inquiry into the processes by which institutions that impact global governance take their decisions. The concept of Global Administrative Law is based on the premise that with the shifting of many regulatory decisions and their implementation from the national to the global level through transnational systems of regulation or regulatory co-operation established through international treaties or informal intergovernmental networks the accountability of these transnational regimes has emerged as an issue. Hence, there have been attempts to extend the application of domestic administrative law to these transnational regimes and develop new mechanisms of administrative law at the global level. Where regulatory decisions in one State affects other States or groups of individuals or organizations, the domestic regulatory decisions have been subjected to procedures of administrative law by international regimes. This has led to the emergence of a body of Global Administrative Law.
The Global Administrative Law Research Project was launched by the New York University School of Law and has evoked much interest among scholars of international law. It aims to map out how different institutions of global governance apply administrative law techniques in their decision making prcesses and identify commonalities in such practices which can ensure transparency, accountability and participation in these institutions for undoing their democracy deficit.
