Ruling the World?: Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance
Cambridge University Press, 10/15/2009
EAN 9780521735490, ISBN10: 0521735491
Paperback, 432 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Ruling the World?: Constitutionalism, International Law, and Global Governance provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the major developments and central questions in debates over international constitutionalism at the UN, EU, WTO, and other sites of global governance. The essays in this volume explore controversial empirical and structural questions, doctrinal and normative issues, and questions of institutional design and positive political theory. Ruling the World? grows out of a three-year research project that brought twelve leading scholars together to create a comprehensive and integrated framework for understanding global constitutionalization. Ruling the World? is the first volume to explore in a cross-cutting way constitutional discourse across international regimes, constitutional pluralism, and relations among transnational and domestic constitutions. The volume examines the core assumptions, basic analytic tools, and key challenges in contemporary debates over international constitutionalization.
Part I. What Is Constitutionalism Beyond the State?
1. A functional approach to global constitutionalism Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Joel P. Trachtman
2. The mystery of global governance David Kennedy
3. The international legal system as a constitution Andreas Paulus
Part II. The Constitutional Dimensions of Specific International Regimes
4. The UN charter - a global constitution? Michael Doyle
5. Rediscovering a forgotten constitution
notes on the place of the UN charter in the international legal order Bardo Fassbender
6. Reframing EU constitutionalism Neil Walker
7. The politics of international constitutions
the curious case of the WTO Jeffrey L. Dunoff
8. Constitutional economics of the WTO Joel P. Trachtman
Part III. Cross Cutting Issues
9. Human rights and international constitutionalism Stephen Gardbaum
10. The cosmopolitan turn in constitutionalism
on the relationship between national constitutional law and constitutionalism beyond the state Mattias Kumm
11. Constitutional heterarchy
the centrality of conflict in the United States and Europe Daniel Halberstam
12. Courts and pluralism
essay on a theory of judicial adjudication in the context of legal and constitutional pluralism Miguel Poiares Maduro
13. Whose constitution(s)? International law, constitutionalism and democracy Samantha Besson.