The Emergence of Global Administrative Law

1 is an effort to systematize studies in diverse national, transnational, and international settings that relate to the administrative law of global governance. Using ideas developed in the first phases of this project, in this article we begin the task of identifying, among these assorted practices, some patterns of commonality and connection sufficiently deep and far- reaching as to constitute an embryonic field of global administrative law. We point to some factors encouraging the development of common approaches, and to mechanisms of learning, borrowing, and cross-referencing, that are con- tributing to a degree of integration in this field. We also note some major con- straints and enduring reasons for non-convergence. We begin to assess the normative case for and against promotion of a unified field of global adminis- trative law, and for and against some specific positions within it. This paper