Description: This book considers the ever complex legal networks of transnational economic governance and their legitimacy problems.
Brief description: Ernst Ulrich Petersmann is emeritus professor and former head of the law department of the European University Institute at Florence (Italy). He combined 40 years of legal practice in German, European, UN, GATT and WTO governance institutions with teaching international and European law at numerous universities in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the USA as well as in African and Asian countries. He was secretary, member or chairman of numerous GATT/WTO dispute settlement panels and chairman of the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association (1999-2014).
Review Quotes:
"This book makes a substantial contribution...It is essential reading for all scholars and students interested in the mind-boggling challenges and complexities of multilayered governance for democracy in a world of globalised markets...All the papers, in their own way, offer rich insights from very different angles...For the lawyer, the contributions by political scientists are particularly helpful in understanding the doctrine of legitimacy and deliberative democracy. They assist in advancing legal thinking. The same is likely true for the legal papers, which could assist the political scientist and economist in coming to grips with the complexities of multilevel trade governance." --Thomas Cottier, Journal of International Economic Law
"The arguments, findings and suggestions are of such richness in advancing the knowledge of interconnections between various layers and sources of law in balancing trade and market liberalization with non-economic considerations, that the reader will be in the position to increasingly appreciate this project only after repeated reading. And he/she will never be disappointed by the inspiration which the book sparks on the international/trans-national constitutionalism discourse." --Luca Rubini, Common Market Law Review, Volume 44, Issue 5