Nico Krisch

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Professor of International Law

PO Box 136

Geneva, CH-1211

Switzerland

http://nicokrisch.net

Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals - IBEI

Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27

Barcelona, Barcelona 08005

Spain

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1.

The Emergence of Global Administrative Law

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Apr 2005
Benedict Kingsbury, Nico Krisch and Richard B. Stewart
New York University School of Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and New York University School of Law
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Administrative Law

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The Decay of Consent: International Law in an Age of Global Public Goods

American Journal of International Law, 108:1 (2014), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Oct 2013
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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International law, global governance, consent, global public goods, sovereign equality

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The Security Council and the Great Powers

This is a pre-print version of a chapter published in V. Lowe et al (eds), The United Nations Security Council and War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 133-153
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 May 2014
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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United Nations; Security Council; great powers; hegemony; international institutions

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Global Administrative Law and the Constitutional Ambition

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 10/2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2009
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Pluralism in International Law and Beyond

Fundamental Concepts for International Law: The Construction of a Discipline (Jean d’Aspremont & Sahib Singh, eds., Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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internationa law; postnational law; legal pluralism

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The Case for Pluralism in Postnational Law

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 12/2009
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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United Nations Reform Through Practice: Report of the International Law Association Study Group on United Nations Reform

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 15 Mar 2012
Ralph Wilde, Hilary Charlesworth, Nico Schrijver, Nico Krisch, B. S. Chimni, Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Jan Klabbers, Sienho Yee and Ivan Shearer
University College London - Faculty of Laws, ANU College of Law, Leiden University - Leiden Law School, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Helsinki - Faculty of Law, Wuhan University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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United Nations, reform, international law, accountability, Security Council, General Assembly, IMF, World Bank, ECOSOC, International Court of Justice, Peacebuidling Commission, sanctions, war, use of force, self-defence, international environmental law

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The Open Architecture of European Human Rights Law

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 11/2007
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Oct 2007
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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The Rise and Fall of Collective Security: Terrorism, US Hegemony, and the Plight of the Security Council

Terrorism as a Challenge for National and International Law: Security vs Liberty? (Christian Walter et al., eds., 2004), 879-908
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 May 2014
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Collective security, United Nations, Security Council, hegemony, international law

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The Paths of International Law: Case Studies

The Paths of International Law: Stability and Change in the International Legal Order, 2023
Number of pages: 866 Posted: 09 May 2023 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2025
Pedro Martínez Esponda, Ezgi Yildiz, Dorothea Endres and Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), California State University, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Norm change, international law, legal theory

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Pluralism in Global Risk Regulation: The Dispute over GMOs and Trade

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 17/2009
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Nov 2009
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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The Structure of Postnational Authority

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Feb 2015
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Authority; postnational governance; global governance; accountability; informality

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Subsidiarity in Global Governance

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 79, 2016, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Oct 2015
Markus Jachtenfuchs and Nico Krisch
Hertie School of Governance and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Global governance; subsidiarity; distribution of powers; self-government; globalization; international law

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The Many Fields of (German) International Law

Forthcoming in Comparative International Law (A. Roberts, P. Stephan, P.-H. Verdier & M. Versteeg, eds., Oxford University Press, 2016)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2016
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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international law; comparative international law; Germany; public law

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Pouvoir Constituant and Pouvoir Irritant in the Postnational Order

This is a pre-publication version of a paper to be published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2016 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2016
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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constitutionalism; constituent power; globalization; postnational law; global governance

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International Law in Times of Hegemony: Unequal Power and the Shaping of the International Legal Order

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, European Journal of International Law 16 (2005) 369-408
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2013
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Diffuse-porous, hydraulic conductance, orthostichy, phyllotaxy, ring-porous, sectoriality, temperate deciduous trees, vascular architecture

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Capacity and Constraint: Governance Through International and Transnational Law

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Feb 2014
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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governance; global governance; international law; transnational regulation

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The Pluralism of Global Administrative Law

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, European Journal of International Law 17 (2006), 247-278
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2013
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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From Drivers to Bystanders: The Varying Roles of States in International Legal Change

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Jun 2023
Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and California State University
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International Law, legal change, theory, interdisciplinary approaches, International Relations, Historical Institutionalism, human rights, international humanitarian law, trade law

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Amerikanische Hegemonie Und Liberale Revolution Im Völkerrecht (American Hegemony and Liberal Revolution in International Law)

Der Staat 43 (2004), 267-297
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Jul 2014
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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international law; United States; hegemony; liberal international order

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Europe's Constitutional Monstrosity*

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 24 (2005) 321-334
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 29 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2013
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Die Vielheit der Europäischen Verfassung (The Multiplicity of the European Constitution)

Die europäische Verfassung – Verfassungen in Europa (Y. Becker et al., eds., 2005), 61-90
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 May 2014
Nico Krisch
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Europe; constitution; European Union; legal pluralism; constitutional pluralism

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Chapter 8: Germany

National Implementation of United Nations Sanctions: A Comparative Study (V. Gowlland-Debbas, ed., 2004), 233-264
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 May 2014
Jochen Frowein and Nico Krisch
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
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Sanctions, United Nations, Security Council, international law