Multilevel Constitutionalism for Multilevel Governance of Public Goods Petersmann Ernst-Ulrich
This is the first legal monograph analyzing multilevel governance of global 'aggregate public goods' (PGs) by using historical, legal, political and economic methods. It explains the need for a 'new…
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This is the first legal monograph analyzing multilevel governance of global 'aggregate public goods' (PGs) by using historical, legal, political and economic methods. It explains the need for a 'new philosophy of international law' in order to protect human rights and PGs more effectively and more legitimately. Such a 'constitutional approach' is justified not only by the fact that 'human rights, ' 'rule of law, ' 'democracy' and other 'principles of justice' used in national, regional and UN legal systems are indeterminate legal concepts whose linguistic, jurisprudential and doctrinal meaning needs to be reviewed and clarified through democratic, judicial and also academic methods. The study describes and criticizes the legal methodology problems of 'disconnected' governance in UN, GATT and WTO institutions, as well as in certain areas of the external relations of the EU (like