The term transnational governance designates untraditional types of international and regional collaboration among both public and private actors. These legally-structured or less formal arrangements link economic, scientific and technological spheres with political and legal processes. They are challenging the type of governance which constitutional states were supposed to represent and ensure. They also provoke old questions: Who bears the responsibility for governance without a government? Can accountability be ensured? The term “constitutionalism” is still widely identified with statal form of democratic governance. The book refers to this term as a yardstick to which then contributors feel committed even where they plead for a reconceptualization of constitutionalism or a discussion of its functional equivalents. “Transnational governance” is neither public nor private, nor purely international, supranational nor totally denationalized. It is neither arbitrary nor accidental that we present our inquiries into this phenomenon in the series of International Studies on Private Law Theory.
Author(s): Christian Joerges, Inger-Johanne Sand, Gunther Teubner
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 386
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Title Page......Page 6
Title verso......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Foreword and Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Part 1: Verba Docent:Theoretical Debates......Page 18
1. Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to State-Centred Constitutional Theory?......Page 20
2. Constitutionalism or Legal Theory: Comments on Gunther Teubner......Page 46
3. Polycontextuality as an Alternative to Constitutionalism......Page 58
4. Themis Sapiens: Comments on Inger-Johannes Sand......Page 84
5. Sources of Legitimcay Beyond the State: A View from International Relations......Page 98
6. No Legitimacy without Politics:Comments on Jens Steffek......Page 120
7. Europe at a Crossroads: Governance or Transnational Governance?......Page 132
8. Law and Non-Law in the Constitutionalisation of Europe:Comments on Eriksen and Fossum......Page 164
Part 2: Exempla Trahunt:Five Case Studies......Page 176
9. Constituting Private Governance Regimes:Standards Bodies in American Law......Page 178
10. Law and Constitutionalism in the Mirror of Non-Governmental Standards:Comments on Harm Schepel......Page 206
11. Transnational Governance Regimes for Foods Derived from Bio-Technology and their Legitimacy......Page 216
12. Legitimation of Transnational Governance Regimes and Foodstuff Regulation at the WTO: Comments on Alexia Herwig......Page 240
13. The Many Faces of the Trade-Environment Conflict:Some Lessons for the Constitutionalisation Project......Page 250
14. The Structural Limitations of Network Governance:ICANN as a Case in Point......Page 274
15. ICANN and the Illusion of a Community-Based Internet:Comments on Jochen von Bernstorff......Page 300
16. Transnational Governance of Coroporate Conduct through the Migration of Human Rights Norms:The Potential Contribution of Transnational 'Private' Litigation......Page 304
17. Human Rights, Transnational Private Law Litigation and Corporate Accountability:Comments on Scott and Wai......Page 338
Part 3: Conclusions......Page 344
18. Transnational Governance without a Public Law?......Page 346
19. Constitutionalism and Transnational Governance: Exploring a Magic Triangle......Page 356
Index......Page 394
