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Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy

Michael Melli

Abstract

The past two decades witnessed what some have called a "Federalism Revolution." With new powers to state actors came scholarly questions, as new sub-organizations developed. These participants created subnational organized creatures that crawled over geopolitical borders. As these transnational quasi-organizations grew, questions followed. This paper examines the role of international organizations and federalism through the lens of the extant subnational climate change organizations. Can governors buck President Trump's decision on the Paris Climate Accords? Did this so-called Federalism Revolution grant new authority to join and form international organizations? What of the Compact Clause and Treaty Clauses? What pertinent precedent lies waiting? First, the paper explores and examines international law and then U.S. law, as well as the doctrine that created the previous federalism structure. Then, the paper delineates and explores the climate change international organizations as case studies. Finally, the paper discusses supplementary international environmental organizations as working precedent. This paper pays much needed attention to a trending form of cross-border global partnership to resoundingly show their undoubted efficacy and rising prominence.

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