International Law’s Administrative Law Turn and the Paris Agreement
Caroline Foster and former student Bella Belcher published “International Law’s Administrative Law Turn and the Paris Agreement” in the Sabin Centre at Columbia University and Verfassungsblog debate series.
Caroline and Bella analyse how remarks in the recent Advisory Opinion on States’ Obligations in respect of Climate Change by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) lean into an increasingly “administrative” law turn in international law. They investigate this phenomenon by looking at how it is coming to be understood that States’ preparation, communication, and maintenance of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement are governed by requirements with an administrative law tone.
Sam Bookman, Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Law School, comments, “This is such a helpful framing, I was thinking about this but couldn’t articulate it!!”