The book analyses how international law addresses interactions between international organizations. In labour governance, these interactions are ubiquitous. They offer each organization an opportunity to promote its model of labour governance, yet simultaneously expose it to adverse influence from others. The book captures this ambivalence and examines the capacity of international law to mitigate it. Based on detailed case studies of mutual influence between the International Labour Organization, the World Bank, and the Council of Europe, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the pertinent law and its key challenges, both at institutional and inter-organizational level. The author envisions a law of inter-organizational interactions as a normative framework structuring interactions and enhancing the effectiveness and legitimacy of multi-institutional governance.

Examines in detail interactions between the International Labour Organization, the World Bank and the Council of Europe, three highly influential organizations in labour governance Explores the law applying to inter-organizational interactions in context and provides an in-depth analysis of its structural challenges Evaluates the potential of international law as a normative framework for inter-organizational interactions

Autorentext

Henner Gött is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International and European Law, University of Göttingen. He is a fully trained German lawyer, holds a Diplomjurist degree from the University of Münster, an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in law from the University of Göttingen. He researches, publishes and teaches in international economic and labour law, international institutional law, European administrative law and European and German constitutional law, and has also been involved in advising governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations. He has received awards, prizes and scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service and further institutions.

Inhalt

1 Introduction.- Part I. The ILO and Inter-Organizational Interactions: 2 The ILO's Model of Labour Governance.- 3 The Phenomenon and the Concept of Inter-Organizational Interactions.- 4 The ILO's Model Under Pressure: The World Bank's Employing Workers Indicator.- 5 The ILO's Model and 'Benevolent Unilateralism': The ECtHR's Reception of ILO Instruments and Practice.- 6 The ILO's Model's Cooperative Promotion: The ILO's Influence on the European Social Charter.- 7 The Impact of Inter-Organizational Interactions on the ILO's Model of Labour Governance.- Part II. 'Egocentric' Institutional Laws and the ILO's Relativization: 8 Inter-Organizational Interactions in the ILO's Institutional law: A 'Carte Blanche' for the ILO.- 9 The ILO's Relativization in the Institutional Laws of the World Bank and the CoE.- 10 The ILO's Relativization: Constitutional Predetermination and Dynamic Evolution.- 11 Mitigating Relativization via Coherent Interpretation?.- 12 Mitigating Relativization via Member States' Loyalty and Sincere Cooperation?.- Part III. The Silence of Inter-Organizational Law: 13 Bilateral Inter-Organizational Treaties Between the ILO, the World Bank and the CoE.- 14 The ILO and the World Bank Within the UN System's Legal Framework.- 15 Beyond Treaties: The Silence of Unwritten Inter-Organizational Law.- 16 The Undefined Inter-Organizational Legal Default Rule.- Part IV. The Role of Law in the ILO's Inter-Organizational Interactions: An Evaluation: 17 The Current Role of Law in the ILO's Inter-Organizational Interactions.- 18 The Legal Status Quo: An Adequate Way of Regulating the ILO's Interactions?.- Part V. Developing the Law of Inter-Organizational Interactions: 19 Perspectives for Law as a Normative Framework for Inter-Organizational Interactions.- 20 Final Remarks.