The Legal Status of the Financial Action Task Force in the International Legal System - by Ilda Cristina Ferreira (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book provides a clear-cut understanding of the FATF's legal status at international level, which can help identify other organisations that share analogous characteristics and provide some clarity and legal certainty about the architecture of the international legal system of the 21st century.

Book Synopsis

The FATF challenges traditional axioms and patently illustrates the dynamics of the international legal system. This book fills a significant gap in academic literature by studying FATF's legal nature and its responsibilities in the international legal system as an organisation with public authority. It makes a bold argument that the FATF has gradually evolved into an international organisation, addressing international law and international organisation law discourse, combining theory and practice.

This book's analytical framework can be applied to any organisation whose legal nature remains undefined, attempting to provide clarity and legal certainty in the international legal system's architecture of the 21st century.

About the Author

Ilda Cristina Ferreira, PhD (2023) University of Hong Kong, jurist in international law of the Macao SAR, lecturer at the University of Macau. She has published articles on international law, transnational criminal law, legal co-operation and human rights in the context of the Macao SAR.