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Binding The United Nations, Anastasia M. Telesetsky

Anastasia M Telesetsky

One of the gaps in the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations is any discussion of mechanisms for judicially reviewing responsibility of international organizations such as the United Nations. This article explores what judicial mechanisms exist to review actions or omissions which might implicate international legal responsibility of the United Nations and its specialized agencies.

The article explores two options under the International Court of Justice Statute for enhancing UN judicial accountability: (1) amending Article 34 of the International Court of Justice Statute or (2) providing for an international agreement requiring the UN to submit …

Binding The United Nations: Compulsory Review Of Disputes Involving Un International Responsibility Before The International Court Of Justice, Anastasia M. Telesetsky

Anastasia M Telesetsky

One of the gaps in the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations is any discussion of mechanisms for judicially reviewing responsibility of international organizations such as the United Nations. This article explores what judicial mechanisms exist to review actions or omissions which might implicate international legal responsibility of the United Nations and its specialized agencies. The article explores two options under the International Court of Justice Statute for enhancing UN judicial accountability: (1) amending Article 34 of the International Court of Justice Statute or (2) providing for an international agreement requiring the UN to submit …

Collaborative Governance For Climate Change Mitigation: Implementing A Co-Regulation Mechanism For Managing The Private Sector’S Contribution To Climate Change, Anastasia M. Telesetsky

Anastasia M Telesetsky

For the past two decades, international climate policy has been handled as a matter for State to State deliberation. Non-state actors have played at best marginal roles in making and implementing international policy. This paper argues that climate change remains an intractable transnational problem because State to State deliberations failed to acknowledge that both climate mitigation and adaptation require ongoing collaborative governance with non-State actors to shift normative behavior. This paper proposes implementing an international co-regulation strategy as a collaborative governance mechanism in order to improve the legitimacy and accountability of intergovernmental meetings. This paper specifically proposes in the context …