Response to Richard Stewart, “Remedying Disregard in Global Regulatory Governance”

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The globalization of administration is the most interesting thing happening in both administrative and international law. Richard Stewart’s article in the April 2014 issue of the American Journal of International Law is a brilliant tour of the horizon of the problems and prospects of this sort of lawmaking. It reflects the work he has done, along with Benedict Kingsbury, as a member of the Global Administrative Law (GAL) Project, housed at New York University Law School and joined by academics all over the world. I am a GAL fellow traveler, if not a paid member, and so I found the paper necessary. Global coordination is setting the standards for national administration in a vast array of issue areas, and surely is the most vibrant and rapidly developing form of international governance. It needs both organization and problematizing, and in this article, Stewart offers both.