Enforcing Transnational Private Regulation

Paul Verbruggen, Assistant Professor of Global and Comparative Private Law, Tilburg Institute for Private Law, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

• Contents: 1. Introduction: transnational private regulation and the challenge of enforcement 2. Research on transnational private regulation and its enforcement 3. Transnational private regulation of advertising 4. Institutional design of advertising code enforcement and public enforcement 5. Interplay between advertising code enforcement and public enforcement 6. Transnational private regulation of food safety 7. Institutional design of private food safety certification schemes 8. Interplay between private food safety certification schemes and public enforcement 9. Comparative analysis 10. Conclusions Annex: List of interviews Index

‘This important book offers an innovative empirical study of the enforcement of transnational private regulation, and complements the existing literature on private standard setting to offer a really major contribution to the field of regulatory governance.’