The newly launched ”Governing with Public Agencies: The Development of a Global Administrative Space and the Creation of a New Role for Public Agencies” finds its roots in a conference organised in Stockholm, Sweden, September 16–17, 2019, under the patronage of the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. The editors of the book are Jane Reichel, Mauro Zamboni and Maria Grahn Farley (Leeds University, UK).

The theme of this anthology is the new role of public agencies within what the authors have termed a “global administrative space,” a space created through increased collaborations and interconnectedness between global, regional and national public and private actors. Within this space policies are adopted, principles developed, and even law is at times enacted in areas within fundamental rights regimes, regulatory frameworks for sector specific areas as well as fishing and agricultural industries, to name only a few. 

Provides an international screening

The question for the symposium was how the development has affected the role of public agencies in legislative procedures at an international level and within states. The result draws on the experiences and observations made by legal scholars from a diverse set of legal systems and cultures, illuminating common threads of developments towards a Global Administrative Space.

The question on the role of the public agencies within the global administrative space is taken on with an exploratory approach, in order to operationalize the concept. The question is addressed from an international, regional and national level, providing different interpretations in different contexts. Some are projecting future applications, whilst others are taking stakes of current operations.

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