Professor José E. Alvarez of New York University School of Law

International organisations’ actions—from the mandates of UN peacekeepers to the conditionality imposed under IMF loans—are commonly justified on the grounds that they are intended to promote the rule of law within states that are the targets of such actions. There is considerable debate about whether these actions assist or promote the rule of law as intended. This talk will address whether that question has any relation to a more recent debate: whether international organisations are themselves subject to the rule of law.

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Professor Alvarez is the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University Law School. He has served as president of the American Society of International Law (2006–2008) and is current co-editor in chief, with Benedict Kingsbury, of the American Journal of International Law. His lectures on the public international law regime governing international investment, at the Hague Academy of International Law, were published as a pocketbook in 2011. His other books are The Evolving International Investment Regime (Oxford University Press, 2011) and International Organizations as Law-Makers (Oxford University Press, 2005). He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters.