The privileges and the immunities, without which an organization could not truly be characterized as international, bring the staff of the international organizations outside of the protection of national courts of law. Having professionals who give their careers to an organization without any protection by a Court of Law would not be tolerated by modern legal thinking. Therefore, for an international organization to have jurisdictional independence from national courts, it is needed that the organization develops a system of jurisdictional protection of its own for its staff members, a true condition of jurisdictional immunity. With the time and the multiplication of Administrative Tribunals created by international organizations, a new discipline of law was produced, the international administrative law.
Professor Spyridon Flogaitis is Emeritus Professor of Administrative Law at the Law School of the University of Athens and Director of the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO). Former President of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, he is Vice-President at the Appeals Board of the European Space Agency, Member of the Appeals Board of EUMETSAT, Member of the Appeals Board of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. He is Judge at the Administrative Tribunal of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and holds the Chair of the Joint of the Appeals Board at IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) in the UN. He is the author of numerous publications in the area of public law.