The Analogy between States and International Organizations

Fernando Lusa Bordin is a Thornely Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Sidney Sussex College and an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on topics of public international law, including law-making, international organizations and the intersection between international law and legal theory. He holds an LL.B. from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), an LL.M. from New York University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of the Yorke Prize (University of Cambridge), Young Scholar Prize (International and Comparative Law Quarterly) and the Diploma of Public International Law (Hague Academy of International Law).

• Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Select table of key documents; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Case for an Analogy: 1. Analogy in international legal reasoning; 2. The foundations of the analogy between states and international organizations; Part II. Objections to the Analogy: 3. Structural differences between states and international organizations; 4. International organizations as 'special subjects'; 5. International organizations as 'layered subjects'; Part III. Limits of the Analogy: 6. Analogy in the relations between organizations and members; 7. Normative contestation of the analogy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

'In this book, Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin explores an elusive but fundamental problem: How does general international law apply to international organizations? That leads him to ask, in depth and with great subtlety, the questions what international organizations are from the point of view of international law and how they fit within the international legal system. By analysing the extent to which States and international organizations can be analogised, and how that analogy has served - and can serve - as a basis to extend rules from one category to the other, Dr Bordin provides a theoretically sophisticated and doctrinally informed contribution to our thinking about the sources and subjects of international law.' James Crawford, Judge, International Court of Justice and Emeritus Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge