Professor of Law Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann sku-14256655

International Economic Law in the 21st Century: Constitutional Pluralism and Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods is a paperback by Professor of Law Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann. Listed under Commercial Law Books as sku-14256655, it argues that the state-centred Westphalian model has not effectively protected human rights and other international public goods.

Many trade, financial and environmental agreements do not address human rights, consumer welfare, citizen participation or transnational rule of law. The book attributes these multilevel governance failures largely to inadequate regulation of collective action problems, including weak legal, judicial and democratic accountability to citizens.

It calls for stronger protection of citizens and their constitutional rights in international economic law, rather than leaving cooperation over public goods to discretionary foreign policy. It also argues that intergovernmental regulation should be justified by principles of justice and multilevel constitutional restraints that protect citizens' rights and public reason.

Its account of constitutional pluralism respects differing legitimate approaches to human rights and democratic constitutionalism while calling for cosmopolitan legal restraints on failures in interconnected trade, finance and environmental governance.