Table of Contents

Introduction: Private Accountability in a Globalizing World Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg and Gerd Winter Part I: Corporate Responsibility and the Law 1. Global Legal Pluralism and Interlegality. Environmental Self-Regulation in Multinational Enterprises as Global Law-Making Martin Herberg 2. Bridging the Gap – The Legal Potential of Private Regulation Carola Glinski 3. Codes of Conduct and Framework Agreements on Social Minimum Standards – Private Regulation? Eva Kocher Part II: Standards of Transnational Business Networks and the Law 4. Proactive Compliance? – Repercussions of National Product Regulation in Standards of Transnational Business Networks Olaf Dilling 5. Transnational Management of Hazardous Chemicals by Interfirm Cooperation and Associations Alexandra Lindenthal 6. The New Universe of Green Finance: From Self-Regulation to Multi-Polar Governance Oren Perez Part III: Consumer based Self-regulation and the Law 7. The Social and Technical Self-Governance of Privacy Ralf Bendrath 8. Transnational Consumer Law: Co-Regulation of B2C-E-Commerce Gralf-Peter Calliess 9. Multi-Interest Self-Governance through Global Product Certification Programs Errol Meidinger 10. State and private sector in a cooperative regulation: the Forest Stewardship Council and other product labels in Brazil Cristiane Derani and José Augusto Fontoura Costa Part IV. Transnational Self-governance in Perspective 11. Regulatory networks and Multi-Level global Governance Sol Picciotto

About the Author

Olaf Dilling is research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State' at Bremen University. Martin Herberg is senior research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State', Bremen University. Gerd Winter is Professor of Public Law and the Sociology of Law at the University of Bremen Department of Law. He directs the Research Center for European Environmental Law as well as a section of the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State' at the same university.

Reviews

...a timely, thought-provoking collection that covers a diverse range of topical and problematic subject areas. The editors and authors clearly believe that official and private regulation can work in tandem, enhancing the overall impact of the regulatory aims and present compelling empirical and theoretical evidence to support this belief. It would be an excellent addition to any library seeking to expand not just its regulation and governance titles, but also its international economic, environmental and socio-legal titles.
*The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol 19 No 3*

...a range of fascinating theoretical,doctrinal and empirical insights into the nature of the self-regulatory settings for multinational corporations and transnational economic networks, as well conceptualising the legal significance of self-regulatory arrangements and the conditions under which private governance may flourish...highly recommended to environmental law students, scholars and policy-makers seeking a more sophisticated understanding of the complex and dynamic shifts in national and transnational governance that have increasingly diluted (but certainly not rendered irrelevant) the role of the state and its formal law-making processes. The wealth of case studies and meticulous empirical evidence, combined with high theory, make for a very plausible analysis of one of the most significant trends in environmental and economic governance...a worthwhile addition to nearly any environmental law library.
*Journal of Environmental Law, Vol 21, No 1*

The text leaves the reader with a well-balanced and structured approach to how businesses should govern themselves and act responsibly in the marketplace; the case studies act as a useful practical tool to reason the law against; and the text is a must-read for any academic or postgraduate student interested in how businesses operate and how to act reponsibly in the marketplace in order to avoid market failure.
*International Trade Law and Regulation, Volume 15, Issue 5*

Interdisciplinary in its inception and empirical in its approach, the volume draws primarily from sociology, law, and political science to provide a through-provoking and optimistic story about the emergent potential for self-governance and private ordering to produce systems of rules and norms that increasingly—and explicitly—regulate public goods, in the public interest. The book's value is its explicitly interdisciplinary focus on empirical and legal accounts, attempting to ground governance theory in specific examples. As such, it should have wide appeal.
*Law and Society Review, Volume 44, Issue 2*