Paperback edition reprinted 2014.--Verso.

Contending approaches to international organizations : between functionalism and constitutionalism / Jan Klabbers -- Personality of international organizations / Tarcisio Gazzini -- Reasoning on powers of organizations / Viljam Engstr�om -- Membership in international organizations / Konstantinos D. Magliveras -- Financing international institutions / Thordis Ingad�ottir -- Privileges and immunities / August Reinisch -- International organizations : institutions and organs / Inger �Osterdahl -- International organizations as law-makers / Jan Wouters and Philip De Man -- Decision-making / Nigel D. White -- Dispute settlement / Kirsten Schmalenbach -- International organizations and treaties : contractual freedom and institutional constraint / Catherine Br�olmann -- Preparing articles on responsibility of international organizations : does the International Law Commission take international organizations seriously? : a mid-term review / Niels M. Blokker -- Dissolution and succession : the transmigration of the soul of international organizations / Ramses A. Wessel -- Ultra vires acts of international organizations / Enzo Cannizzaro and Paolo Palchetti -- Deformalization of international organizations law / Jarna Petman -- Reflections on international design -- especially treaty bodies / Geir Ulfstein -- The EU as (more than) an international organization / Joxerramon Bengoetxea -- The United Nations / Sabine von Schorlemer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.