Constitutionalism, Multilevel Trade Governance and International Economic Law (Paperback)

Section I: International Trade Law: Constitutionalisation and Judicialisation in the WTO and Beyond Section I.1 Constitutionalisation and the WTO: Two Competing Visions from Two Different Disciplines 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 Section I.2 Judicialisation: Empirical Inquiries and Constitutional Concerns 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 Section I.3 Participatory Governance: Emerging Patterns and their Juridification 5. Why Co-operate? Civil Society Participation at the WTO Jens Steffek and Claudia Kissling 6. Legal Patterns of Global Governance: Participatory Transnational Governance Rainer Nickel Section I.4 Legalisation Patterns outside the WTO 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 Section II.1 Food Safety Regulation: the SPS Agreement and the Codex Alimentarius 9. Fixing the Codex? Global Food-Safety Governance Under Review Thorsten Huller and Leo 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 Section II.2 The TBT Agreement and International Standardisation 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: Alternative Conceptions of International Economic Law and Multilevel Governance 15. The Idea of a Three-dimensional Conflicts Law as Constitutional Form Christian Joerges 16. The World Trade Organization and Global Administrative Law Richard B Stewart and Michelle Ratton Sanchez-Badin 17. Towards a Five Storey House Thomas Cottier 18. The Future of International Economic Law: A Research Agenda Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann