The New Zealand Food Bill and Global Administrative Law: A Recipe for Democratic Engagement?
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Bryce Adamson
Legal advisor to the New Zealand government and holds a LL.M. specialising in public international law from the University of Toronto.
Abstract
The New Zealand Food Bill is being passed amidst stern criticism of its content and the influence of multi-national corporations and the Codex Alimentarius Commission, whose food-safety standards motivated the bill. These concerns illustrate the large democratic and legitimisation deficits in global governance. One response to these criticisms and concerns is global administrative law, which focuses on promoting administrative law tools to enhance accountability. However, an examination of the Food Bill reinforces two main critiques of global administrative law: that it excludes addressing substance of international law and brackets democracy. I argue the limited GAL approach cannot be justified and the significant gaps in its approach require that it engage with democracy. I analyse the possibilities of global administrative law to engage with (to acknowledge and adopt) two theories of global democracy - deliberative and cosmopolitan - using the Food Bill as a case study.
About the author
Legal advisor to the New Zealand government and holds a LL.M. specialising in public international law from the University of Toronto.
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Table of Contents
- Articles
- The International Validity of the Venezuelan Denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights
- Legisprudence Limitations on Constitutional Amendments? Reflections on The Czech Constitutional Court’s Declaration of Unconstitutional Constitutional Act
- The New Zealand Food Bill and Global Administrative Law: A Recipe for Democratic Engagement?
- Notes
- Wrestling with Constitutionalism: the Supermajority and the Hungarian Constitutional Court
- Developments Austria
- Focus: Article 47 CFREU in the case law of the three Supreme Courts in Austria
- Evident breaches of § 41 para 7 Asylum Act constitute an infringement of Art 47 CFREU
- Ruling of the Supreme Administrative Court regarding the application of the CFREU
- Article 47 CFREU: scope of application and accessoriness
- Developments CEE
- Lithuanian Constitutional Court: The eligibility ban for those removed under impeachment procedure
- Bosnian Constitutional Court: Law on Personal Identification Number not consistent with rule of law
- Book Reviews
- Sarah M H Nouwen, Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-01078-9 (hardback), 524 pp.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Table of Contents
- Articles
- The International Validity of the Venezuelan Denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights
- Legisprudence Limitations on Constitutional Amendments? Reflections on The Czech Constitutional Court’s Declaration of Unconstitutional Constitutional Act
- The New Zealand Food Bill and Global Administrative Law: A Recipe for Democratic Engagement?
- Notes
- Wrestling with Constitutionalism: the Supermajority and the Hungarian Constitutional Court
- Developments Austria
- Focus: Article 47 CFREU in the case law of the three Supreme Courts in Austria
- Evident breaches of § 41 para 7 Asylum Act constitute an infringement of Art 47 CFREU
- Ruling of the Supreme Administrative Court regarding the application of the CFREU
- Article 47 CFREU: scope of application and accessoriness
- Developments CEE
- Lithuanian Constitutional Court: The eligibility ban for those removed under impeachment procedure
- Bosnian Constitutional Court: Law on Personal Identification Number not consistent with rule of law
- Book Reviews
- Sarah M H Nouwen, Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-01078-9 (hardback), 524 pp.
