Key points for reflection:

• International organisations (IOs) as international legal persons, and thus possessing legal subjecthood
• Legal subjects are capable of bearing rights and duties/obligations, though IOs bear a different category of subjecthood to States
• Great variety between IOs, being created by States to fulfil wildly different functions
• How does international law apply to international organisations?
• How do international organisations develop international law
• The United Nations as the most ‘universal’ international organisation