The Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank: 20 Years of Operation

Abstract

The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal (ADBAT) is only the latest of many such milestones commemorated by various administrative tribunals, created by their host international organizations to provide independent review of the actions of management to assure that staff members were treated reasonably under the organizations’ rule of law. Most of those commemorations focused on the need to assure independence of the tribunal itself so that it and the organization that created it remain respected as neutral and independent and thus beyond censure by national courts of member states claiming lack of adequate legal protection for their national citizens.