Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

In this lecture, the author explores the concept of accountability in the changing world in which international law operates, and to draw upon my own recent experience chairing the Inspection Panel at the World Bank. In doing so, I want especially to recognize the concerns of poor people and bring their plight into the discussion of accountability.

The world today differs sharply from that when the United Nations was formed, some 65 years ago. In that world, there were only 51 states, few international organizations, a nascent global civil society, only 2 billion people, many of whom lived under colonialism and in poverty, an emerging recognition of human rights, and the glimmerings of globalization. International environmental law, for the most part, did not exist.

Comments

abridges 50 Indian J. Intl L. 165-182 (2010)

Publication Citation

104 Am. Soc'y. Intl. L. Proc. 477-490 (2010)

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