International Economic Law in the 21st Century

Ernst Ulrich Petersmann is Emeritus Professor of International and European Law at the European University Institute at Florence (Italy) and former head of its Law Department. Over 35 years, he has combined academic teaching at Universities in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the USA and Asian countries with practising international economic law as legal adviser to the German Ministry of Economic Affairs, GATT and the WTO, German representative in - and legal consultant for - European and UN institutions, and as secretary, member or chairman of GATT and WTO dispute settlement panels.

• Introduction and Overview: The Crisis of International Economic Law I How Should International Economic Law be Designed in Order to Protect 'Interdependent Public Goods' More Effectively? II The Emergence of Cosmopolitan IEL Based on Respect for 'Constitutional Pluralism' III 'Civilizing' and 'Constitutionalizing' IEL Requires Cosmopolitan Restraints of Public and Private Power IV Legal and Political Strategies for Making Multilevel Economic Regulation Consistent with Human Rights V Regulating the 'Tragedy of the Commons' and 'Interdependent Public Goods' Requires Transnational Rule of Law VI Transnational Rule of Law Must be Justified by an 'Overlapping Consensus' on Principles of JusticeVII The Need for Constitutional Reforms of the Law of International Organizations: The Example of the World Trading System VIII From 'Constitutional Nationalism' to Multilevel Judicial Protection of Cosmopolitan Rights in IEL Conclusions and Research Agenda for IEL in the Twenty-First Century

The arguments are persuasive and are both legal and philosophical…There is no other book being written to make such strong and clear argument about the problems of IEL before…The book definitely deserves the highest academic recognition from many perspectives.