Constitutionalism, Multilevel Trade Governance And Social Regulation (Hardcover)

Section I: International Trade Law: Constitutionalisation and Judicialisation in the WTO and Beyond 1. Multilevel Trade Governance in the WTO Requires Multilevel Constitutionalism Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann 2. Democratic Legitimacy of Transnational Trade Governance: A View from Political Theory Patrizia Nanz 3. Dispute Settlement under GATT and WTO: An Empirical Enquiry into a Regime Change Achim Helmedach and Bernhard Zangl 4. The Appellate Body's 'Response' to the Tensions and Interdependencies Between Transnational Trade Governance and Social Regulation Christiane Gerstetter 5. Why Co-operate? Civil Society Participation at the WTO Jens Steffek and Claudia Kissling 6. Participatory Transnational Governance Rainer Nickel 7. Non-Traditional Patterns of Global Regulation: Is the WTO 'Missing the Boat'? Joost Pauwelyn 8. Conflicts and Comity in Transnational Governance: Private International Law as Mechanism and Metaphor for Transnational Social Regulation through Plural Legal Regimes Robert Wai Section II: Transnational Governance Arrangements for Product Safety 9. Fixing the Codex? Global Food-Safety Governance Under Review Thorsten Huller and Matthias Leonhard Maier 10. The Precautionary Principle in Support of Practical Reason: an Argument Against Formalistic Interpretations of the Precautionary Principle Alexia Herwig 11. Beyond the Science/Democracy Dichotomy: The World Trade Organisation Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement and Administrative Constitutionalism Elizabeth Fisher 12. Administrative Globalisation and Curbing the Excesses of the State Damian Chalmers 13. A New Device for creating International Legal Normativity: The WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement and 'International Standards' Robert Howse 14. The Empire's Drains: Sources of Legal Recognition of Private Standardisation under the TBT Agreement Harm Schepel Section III: The WTO and Transnational Environmental Governance 15. Global Environmental Governance and the WTO: Emerging Rulesthrough Evolving Practice: The CBD-Bonn Guidelines Christine Godt 16. Environmental Policies and the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment: A Record of Failure? Ulrike Ehling 17. Facing the Global Hydra: Ecological Transformation at the Global Financial Frontier: The Ambitious Case of the Global Reporting Initiative Oren Perez Section IV: Epilogue 18. Constitutionalism in Postnational Constellations: Contrasting Social Regulation in the EU and in the WTO Christian Joerges