Constitutionalism, Multilevel Trade Governance and Social Regulation.

Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction and Overview -- 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 -- INTRODUCTION -- II. MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE AND MULTILEVEL CONSTITUTIONALISM: INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATIONS -- III. DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS AS CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS ON MULTILEVEL TRADE GOVERNANCE -- IV. CONSTITUTIONALISING THE WTO? PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS -- IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- 2. Democratic Legitimacy and Constitutionalisation of Transnational Trade Governance: A View from Political Theory -- I. THE LEGITIMACY OF TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE: WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS? -- II. PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL CONSTITUTIONALISM -- III. ELEMENTS OF A DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM -- IV. CONCLUSION -- Section I.2: Judicialisation: Empirical Inquiries and Constitutional Concerns -- 3. Dispute Settlement Under GATT and WTO: An Empirical Enquiry into a Regime Change -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. JUDICIALISATION OF GATT/WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT PROCEDURES -- III. GATT/WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN PRACTICE-CONCEPTUAL REMARKS -- IV. GATT/WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN PRACTICE: PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE -- V. CONCLUSION -- 4. The Appellate Body's 'Response' to the Tensions and Interdependencies Between Transnational Trade Governance and Social Regulation -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BALANCING AND THE INDETERMINACY OF (WTO) LAW -- III. BALANCING IN THE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT REPORTS OF THE WTO -- IV. SOME TENTATIVE COMMENTS ON THE APPELLATE BODY'S JUDICIAL STYLE.

V. CONCLUSION: SOME IMPLICATIONS -- Section I.3: Participatory Governance: Emerging Patterns and their Juridification -- 5. Why Co-operate? Civil Society Participation at the WTO -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND NON-STATE ACTORS: EXPLAINING PATTERNS OF CO-OPERATION -- III. MAPPING INCENTIVES FOR CO-OPERATION: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS -- IV. PARTICIPATION OF NON-STATE ACTORS IN THE WTO -- V. CONCLUSION -- 6. Participatory Transnational Governance -- I. DEMOCRACY AND TRANSNATIONAL REGULATION -- II. JUSTIFYING GLOBAL 'LAW' WITHOUT CONSTITUENCIES -- III. THE EU AS A POSITIVE MODEL FOR GLOBAL LAW PRODUCTION? -- IV. A LOOK FORWARD: CONSTITUTING PARTICIPATORYTRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- Section I.4 Legalisation Patterns outside the WTO -- 7. Non-Traditional Patterns of Global Regulation: Is the WTO 'Missing the Boat'? -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. NEW SOURCES AND PLAYERS IN GLOBAL REGULATION -- III. NON-TRADITIONAL PATTERNS OF GLOBAL REGULATION AND THE WTO -- IV. CONCLUSION -- 8. Conflicts and Comity in Transnational Governance: Private International Law as Mechanism and Metaphor for Transnational Social Regulation Throught Plural Legal Regimes -- I. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A MECHANISM OF TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL REGULATION -- II. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW ANALOGIES: CONFLICTS AND COMITY -- 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 -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PARTICIPATION: GOVERNMENTAL AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS -- III. JUSTIFICATION: SCIENCE AND POLITICS -- IV. DECISION: RULES FOR RECONCILING AUTONOMY AND EFFICIENCY? -- V. CONCLUSIONS.

10. The Precautionary Principle in Support of Practical Reason: An Argument Against Formalistic Interpretations of the Precautionary Principle -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE JUSTIFICATION FOR PRECAUTION -- III. PRECAUTION UNDER THE SPS AGREEMENT -- IV. CONCLUSION -- 11. Beyond the Science/Democracy Dichotomy: The World Trade Organisation Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement and Administrative Constitutionalism -- I. THE SPS AGREEMENT AND THE SCIENCE/DEMOCRACY DICHOTOMY -- II. RISK REGULATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM -- III. THE SPS AGREEMENT, ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT -- IV. IMPLICATIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM -- V. CONCLUSION -- 12. Administrative Globalisation and Curbing the Excesses of the State -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GLOBALISATION AND THE NATION STATE -- III. THE FORMS, FUNCTIONS AND FRAMES OF THE NEW GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION -- IV. JUSTIFYING GLOBAL GOVERNMENT -- V. CONCLUSION -- 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' -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. TBT AND INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY COMPETITION -- III. CONCLUSION -- 14. The Empire's Drains: Sources of Legal Recognition of Private Standardisation Under the TBT Agreement -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A SLOW MOTION COUP D'ETAT? -- III. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INTERGOVERNMENTALISM -- IV. THE MANY FACES OF 'CONSENSUS' -- V. CONCLUSION -- Section III: The WTO and Transnational Environmental Governance -- 15. Global Environmental Governance and the WTO: Emerging Rules through Evolving Practice: The CBD-Bonn Guidelines -- I. GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE AND THE WTO -- II. WTO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- III. INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE OF THE TRANSFER OF GENETIC RESOURCES.

IV. PATTERNS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE -- V. CONCLUSION FOR THE OVERALL DEBATE ON CONSTITUTIONALISM -- 16. Environmental Policies and the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment: A Record of Failure? -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. INSTITUTIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS: THE CTE, ITS PREDECESSORS AND THE SECRETARIAT'S ENVIRONMENT DIVISION -- III. THE WORK OF THE CTE: ASSIGNMENT, PARTICIPANTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENT -- IV. THE CTE'S PROBLEM-SOLVING INCAPACITY -- V. CONCLUSION: A RECORD OF FAILURE OR AN ACT OF SYMBOLIC POLITICS? -- 17. Facing the Global Hydra: Ecological Transformation at the Global Financial Frontier: The Ambitious Case of the Global Reporting Initiative -- I. ECOLOGICAL RESPONSIVENESS WITHIN THE REALM OF TRADITIONAL ACCOUNTING -- II. ALTERNATIVE LTERNATIVE REPORTING SCHEMES AND THE GRI GEVOLUTION: FROM ECONOIMC ORIENTED TO COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING -- III. THE GRI GUIDELINES AS A TRIGGER FOR CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION: SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS -- ANNEX A: GRI ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (GRI GUIDELINES 2002: 49-51) -- Section IV: Epilogue -- 18. Constitutionalism in Postnational Constellations: Contrasting Social Regulation in the EU and in the WTO -- I. INTRODUCTION: THE CONSTITUTIONALISATION OF GOVERNANCE AND THE SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF MARKETS -- II. THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE: FREE INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE AS INSTIGATOR OF REGULATORY INNOVATION -- III. NON-TARIFF BARRIERS AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: A SURVEY OF CONFLICT-RESOLVING AND POLICY-INTEGRATING MECHANISMS -- IV. THE TURN TO GOVERNANCE AND ITS LEGITIMACY PROBLE´MATIQUE AT NATIONAL, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL -- Index.

This book considers the ever complex legal networks of transnational economic governance and their legitimacy problems.

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