7 Succession of International Organizations

The IO analogue: the replacement or continuation of organizations — the League-to-UN property transfer (1946's Assembly resolution devolving assets — the classical act of IO succession); the ILO's continuous personality through the League's death; the OAU→AU, the EC→EU (the Lisbontreaty's consolidated personality); the OSCE's inheritance of CSCE practice; the WHO/FAO family's constancy. Legal questions: transfer of assets and staff; succession to headquarters agreements and conventions (the UN's assumption of League treaties' depositary functions); membership's automaticity — and the sharp contrast: the EU is not the successor of member states' obligations but a new person sui generis. The exam's line: IO succession is a fact of administrative continuity, effected by members' decisions, not by the territory-driven rules of state succession.