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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

International Organizations or Institutions, History of

Robert Kolb

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
January 2011

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 03 October 2024

Subject(s):
1815 to World War I — Since World War II — World War I to World War II — International administrative unions

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 Sir Gerald G Fitzmaurice, as Rapporteur of the International Law Commission (ILC), in 1956, defined an international organization (‘IO’) as ‘a collectivity of States established by treaty, with a constitution and common organs, having a personality distinct from that of its member-States, and being a subject of international law with treaty-making capacity’ (‘Report on the Law of Treaties’ [1956] vol II UNYBILC 108). These four constitutive elements of an IO are today generally accepted: (i) the formal basis of the organization is a treaty; (ii) its members are...
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