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Article: Decentralized administrative law in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.(Global Administrative Law)
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- Law and Contemporary Problems
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- June 22, 2005
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INTRODUCTION
When one thinks of international organizations whose administrative processes legal scholars should understand, the European Union and the World Trade Organization come to mind without a moment's hesitation. A bit later, perhaps, one might also come up with the Montreal Protocol secretariat, Codex Alimentarius, or the International Organization for Standardization. It will probably take a good while before the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) comes to mind. In some respects this is hardly surprising, for the OECD is neither a well-known nor well-studied international organization (and is certainly not known as ...