Recent Publications

Book Collection on Governance in Development Finance

8 Jun 2020

Professor Owen McIntyre of the UCC School of Law, has published a co-edited book collection on governance in development finance, entitled “The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs): Towards Good Governance in Development Finance”.

Published by Brill, the collection is co-edited by Professor McIntyre and Suresh Nanwani, Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University. The collection gives a comprehensive analysis of, inter alia, the operation of IAMs and their contribution to environmental and social governance. For more information on the collection and for information on how to access the e-book, please click here.

Abstract

Independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs), along with the environmental and social policies of multilateral development banks (MDBs) that they are charged with ensuring, exemplify the recent trend towards reliance upon informal, quasi-legal mechanisms, rules and standards of transnational environmental and social governance, which is often characterised as ‘global administrative law’. While IAMs, as quasi-regulatory institutional governance mechanisms, would appear to be a creation of the global administrative law phenomenon, they also apply, and may even generate, the key good governance principles (transparency, stakeholder participation, accessibility, reviewability, rule of law, proportionality, human rights, etc.) that form the procedural and substantive core of the values reflected by manifestations of global administrative law. Therefore, it is important that those engaged in the utilisation, operation or institutional development of IAMs should understand global administrative law as a framework for analysing and reflecting upon what it is that they do.

 

Professor McIntyre has authored and co-authored the following chapters in the collection:

Owen McIntyre and Suresh Nanwani, ‘Introduction’, in O. McIntyre and S. Nanwani (eds.), The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs): Towards Good Governance in Development Financing (Brill, Leiden, 2020) [Chapter 1] 1-4. For further details, click here.

Owen McIntyre, ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms as Agents of “Global Administrative Law”’, in O. McIntyre and S. Nanwani (eds.), The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs): Towards Good Governance in Development Financing (Brill, Leiden, 2020) [Chapter 3] 21-41. For further details, click here.

Owen McIntyre, ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms: Promotion of Standards, Good Governance and Accountability’, in O. McIntyre and S. Nanwani (eds.), The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs): Towards Good Governance in Development Financing (Brill, Leiden, 2020) [Chapter 14] 339-372. For further details, click here.

Owen McIntyre and Suresh Nanwani, ‘Conclusion’, in O. McIntyre and S. Nanwani (eds.), The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs): Towards Good Governance in Development Financing (Brill, Leiden, 2020) [Chapter 15] 373-382. For further details, click here.

 

Dr Maeve McDonagh, retired former professor at the School of Law, has also authored a chapter in the collection:

Maeve McDonagh ‘Evaluating the Access to Information Policies of the Multilateral Development Banks’, in O. McIntyre and S. Nanwani (eds.), The Practice of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs): Towards Good Governance in Development Financing (Brill, Leiden, 2020) [Chapter 7] 134-161. For Further details, click here.

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