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.
Publication Citation
104 Am. Soc'y. Intl. L. Proc. 477-490 (2010)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Brown Weiss, Edith, "On Being Accountable in a Kaleidoscopic World" (2010). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1624.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1624
Comments
abridges 50 Indian J. Intl L. 165-182 (2010)