EIRP Proceedings, Vol 8 (2013)

Abstract

Upon the incorporation of an inter-governmental international organization, the states assign to such entities some of their powers, based on which the organisation will promote the collective interests of its members. Thus, the international organisations perform some public functions based on which they enter in contact with other entities of international order, such as different states or other organisations. Manifesting as such, they acquire their own legal personality, distinct from that of the states forming it, and which it is opposable erga omnes. The scope of such article is to examine the legal personality of inter-governmental international organisations providing one apprehends the limits of their juridical personality. In the achievement of such objective, I have developed both the internal juridical personality and the international juridical personality of international organisations, recording the manner of manifestation of such legal personality.