Date: 2024
Type: Contribution to book
European economic and environmental constitutionalism as driver for UN and WTO sustainable development reforms
Giuliana ZICCARDI CAPALDO (ed.), The global community yearbook of international law and jurisprudence 2023 : global law, politics, ethics, justice, New York : Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 69-102
PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich, European economic and environmental constitutionalism as driver for UN and WTO sustainable development reforms, in Giuliana ZICCARDI CAPALDO (ed.), The global community yearbook of international law and jurisprudence 2023 : global law, politics, ethics, justice, New York : Oxford University Press, 2024, pp. 69-102
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The Introduction recalls why the progressive transformation of European economic integration law into European community and constitutional law remains the most successful example for using regional law and jurisprudence for promoting also global community law. Section II explains why the increasing authoritarian and neoliberal rejection of “transnational constitutionalism” (like judicial protection of transnational rule-of-law) undermines collective protection of global public goods demanded by citizens. Section III describes how Europe’s multilevel democratic constitutionalism continues to enable the European Union to exercise leadership for UN and WTO legal reforms such as compulsory WTO arbitration and international emission trading systems aimed at mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions. Section IV uses the examples of competing internet regulations in China, Europe, and the United States, and of international criminal law (like the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court against Russian President Putin), for explaining the limits of constitutional and institutional restraints on UN and WTO governance.
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Published online: 05 November 2024
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77731
Full-text via DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197795392.003.0004
ISBN: 9780197795422; 9780197795392
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Preceding version: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76097
Version: Published version of EUI LAW WP 2023/05
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