ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses other fields of international law and its institutions which have managed to keep the hard law normative pace with global changes and technological developments, while preserving the established principles of cooperation and ensuring sustainability of their respective regimes.
Although specialized international organizations share a number of structural and constitutional similarities, each of them has developed an institutional personality of its own. This institutional personality is manifested through the historical context (when the organization was established), its purpose, its membership structure, its constituent instrument, and the actual implementation.
Examples of institutional personalities that I have chosen to examine are based on three criteria:
organizations that are part of the UN family and deal mainly with technology – International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO);
legal regimes that deal with global commons and their normative structure – the law of the sea and the law of the Antarctic area;
regional organizations dealing with outer space activities – European Space Agency (ESA) and newly formed European Union Agency for Space Programme (EUSPA).
