The doctoral dissertation focuses on law and legitimacy in relation to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. The main finding of this study is that in several aspects - from a normative and comparative perspective of legitimacy - there is a significant disparity between the Commission's functions and competence on the one hand, and its procedures and composition on the other. The research carried out thus also serves to illustrate - by using the example of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - what contemporary international law theory considers to be dislocation of decision-making in the law among nations.