Virtual Voting in RFMOs: A Procedural Odyssey at the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
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In: International Organizations Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2023, p. 305-329.
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T1 - Virtual Voting in RFMOs
T2 - A Procedural Odyssey at the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
AU - Schatz, Valentin
AU - Perraudeau, Maia
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Valentin Schatz and Maia Perraudeau, 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article examines, from the perspective of international institutional law, the variety of procedural problems which arose following an online vote by secret ballot taken by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (iotc) in 2021. By providing a detailed case-study of this novel instance of practice and the challenges it represents, this article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the institutional governance and procedural legal framework of regional fisheries management organizations (rfmo s). It first analyses the vote and the challenge to its validity. This article then constructs a taxonomy of the various procedural irregularities that were found to have occurred, the responsibility of institutional actors for their occurrence, and their legal consequences. The final substantive sections of this article examine how the iotc ultimately dealt with the situation and what potential role the available dispute settlement procedures could have had in addressing the discussed procedural irregularities.
AB - This article examines, from the perspective of international institutional law, the variety of procedural problems which arose following an online vote by secret ballot taken by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (iotc) in 2021. By providing a detailed case-study of this novel instance of practice and the challenges it represents, this article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the institutional governance and procedural legal framework of regional fisheries management organizations (rfmo s). It first analyses the vote and the challenge to its validity. This article then constructs a taxonomy of the various procedural irregularities that were found to have occurred, the responsibility of institutional actors for their occurrence, and their legal consequences. The final substantive sections of this article examine how the iotc ultimately dealt with the situation and what potential role the available dispute settlement procedures could have had in addressing the discussed procedural irregularities.
KW - decision-making
KW - Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
KW - online voting
KW - Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
KW - virtual meetings
KW - Sociology
KW - Law
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U2 - 10.1163/15723747-20030003
DO - 10.1163/15723747-20030003
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85183006739
VL - 20
SP - 305
EP - 329
JO - International Organizations Law Review
JF - International Organizations Law Review
SN - 1572-3739
IS - 3
ER -