This first Special Issue of Advances analyzes an important emerging legal framework in which supra-national bodies - such as international organizations and transnational networks - enact rules at the global level that affect both national administrations and individuals. The contributions deal with the following issues: Cosmos and taxis in the global order (The The G8 and "The Others" and WTO Relations with Non-State Actors: Captive to Its Own Web?), Relationships and bodies beyond multilevelism (States' Control over New International Organization -The Role of Transnational Committees in the European and Global Orders); Global standards: Overlapsa and coexistence (Global Standards for Domestic Financial Regulations: Concourse, Competition and Mutual Reinforcement between Different Types of Global Administration - Internationalizing Public Procurement Law: Conflicting Global Standards for Public Procurement); Global limits on national regulators:Mediation between supranational and non-state actors (Food Safety: Between European and Global Administration -Emissions Trading and Polycentric Negotiation -The World Bank Inspection Panel: Is It Really Effective? The aforementioned papers point to the question of the role of administrative law in the global order. Despite their divergent approaches and issues, the resulting texts share all the same methodology and the same objective. These essays, therefore, move from some common assumptions, such as the proliferation of global actors, the fragmentation of global arena, the role of States in the new framework, the emergence of competing regulations by different bodies, and the relationships between individuals and global administrations.