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This chapter focuses on international relations and legal cooperation in general, including diplomacy and consular relations. Administrative law, as a legal concept, has been the subject of sophisticated discussion. There seems to be a general understanding that the term refers to the legal rules that govern the executive or administrative functions of a State, that is, the organization and activities of a State's non-legislative and non-judicial public authorities. It is accepted that administrative law is an integral and indispensable part of the legal order of any State, provided the State is governed by law at all. Uncertainty attaches to “administrative law” when the term is transferred to the international field. Administrative law as applied to the international order might refer to the internal law of international organizations. Within the law of an international organization it is reasonable to distinguish a “constitutional” and an “administrative” sphere comparable to counterparts existing in domestic law.

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