Full Description
This book explores strategies for limiting transnational market failures, governance failures and constitutional failures impeding protection of the universally agreed sustainable development goals like climate change mitigation and access to justice and transnational rule-of-law. Can multilevel democratic and judicial protection of fundamental rights and public goods across frontiers be extended through plurilateral agreements? Can transnational economic and environmental constitutionalism be reconciled with 'constitutional pluralism' and with democratic constitutionalism depending on individual and democratic consent of free and equal citizens? Will judicial challenges (e.g. of EU carbon border adjustment measures) and countermeasures lead to further disruption of UN and WTO law?
"This innovative book provides convincing analyses by leading practitioners and academics of multilevel governance of transnational public goods. It advocates the need for stronger involvement of civil society and democratic institutions. It shows why constitutionalism and constitutional economics offer appropriate methodologies for limiting market failures, government failures and constitutional failures. It thereby offers a glimpse of much needed optimism."
Karl-Ernst Brauner, former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Contents
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction and Conclusions of This Book
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann and Armin Steinbach
2 Constitutional Pluralism, Regulatory Competition and Transnational Governance Failures
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
3 Constitutional Economics and Transnational Governance Failures
Armin Steinbach
4 Constitutionalising Climate Mitigation Norms in Europe
Christina Eckes
5 The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism a Transnational Governance Instrument Whose Time Has Come
James Flett
6 Common but Differentiated Constitutionalisms: Does 'Environmental Constitutionalism' Offer Realistic Policy Options for Improving UN Environmental Law and Governance? US and Latin American Perspectives
Erin Daly, Maria Antonia Tigre and Natalia Urzola
7 Constitutional, Governance or Market Failures: China, Climate Change and Energy Transition
Henry Gao and Weihuan Zhou
8 Reforming International Governance: Multilateralism or Polylateralism?
Pascal Lamy
9 Transnational Governance Failures - a Business Perspective and Roadmap for Future Action
John W.H. Denton AO
10 U.S. Trade and Multilateralism
Merit E. Janow
11 Democratic Leadership through Transatlantic Cooperation for Trade and Technology Reforms through the ttc Model?
Elaine Fahey
12 Can the wto Dispute Settlement System Be Revived? Options for Addressing a Major Governance Failure of the World Trade Organization
Peter Van den Bossche
13 EU and UN Proposals for Reforming Investor-State Arbitration
Maria Laura Marceddu
14 Systematic Rivalries and Multilevel Governance in Asia: a Constitutional Perspective
Julien Chaisse
Index
