1. D. J. Bederman, ‘The Souls of International Organizations: Legal Personality and the Lighthouse at Cape Spartel’, 36 Virginia JIL (1996) 275 at 357.
2. H. Schermers and N.M. Blokker, International Institutional Law, 3rd edn. (1995) 29.
3. States are often resistant to the latter view. See the recent criticism by the UK Minister on the draft EU Constitution: “It is not the constitution that grants competences, but the Member States, through the constitution”. R. Watson, ‘Giscard’s Plan for Europe Swamped by Amendments’, The Times, 25 February 2003, 16.
4. C. F. Amerasinghe, Principles of the Institutional Law of International Organizations (1996) 89-90
5. J. Klabbers, 'Presumptive Personality: The European Union in International Law', in M. Koskenniemi, ed., International Legal Aspects of the European Union (1998) 243-9.