Sustainable Development through Regulatory Competition without Effective UN and WTO Legal Restraints?

Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

doi:10.17104/0044-2348-2024-1-103

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- 1–6 Editorial Robert Stendel Robert Stendel 1–6
- 7–38 Comment 7–38
  - 7–22 „Füg’ dich, meine Schöne“: Plädoyer für ein feministisches Foreign Relations Law Anne Peters Anne Peters 7–22
  - 23–26 100 Years of Public Law: International, Transnational, Comparative Philipp Glahé, Alexandra Kemmerer Philipp Glahé, Alexandra Kemmerer 23–26
  - 27–38 Being a Trespasser Sabino Cassese Sabino Cassese 27–38
- 39–186 Abhandlungen 39–186
  - 39–72 Ecocide: The ‘Forgotten’ Legacy of Nuremberg Muyiwa Adigun Muyiwa Adigun 39–72
  - 73–102 Umweltnotfälle in der Antarktis – Notwendigkeit und Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten einer vor- läufigen Anwendung des Haftungsannexes zum Antarktisvertrag Stefan Onur Seddig, Laura Tribess, Silja Vöneky Stefan Onur Seddig, Laura Tribess, Silja Vöneky 73–102
  - 103–140 Sustainable Development through Regulatory Competition without Effective UN and WTO Legal Restraints? Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann 103–140
  - 141–156 (European) Multilevel Constitutionalism to Govern Transnational Public Goods? A Reply to Petersmann Paolo Mazzotti Paolo Mazzotti 141–156
  - 157–186 The EU Terror List and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC): About the Law as an Alleged Obstacle to Political Action Lukas Märtin Lukas Märtin 157–186
- 187–206 Buchbesprechungen 187–206
  - 187–192 Schorkopf, Frank: Die unentschiedene Macht. Verfassungsgeschichte der Europäischen Union, 1948-2007 Lisa-Marie Lührs Lisa-Marie Lührs 187–192
  - 193–198 Raube, Svenja: Die antizipierte Einladung zur militärischen Gewalt- anwendung im Völkerrecht Hannah Kiel Hannah Kiel 193–198
  - 199–206 Beck, Felix: Self-Spreading Biotechnology and International Law. Prevention, Responsibility, and Liability in a Transboundary Context Tade Matthias Spranger Tade Matthias Spranger 199–206
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Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Heidelberg Journal of International Law , page 103 - 140

Sustainable Development through Regulatory Competition without Effective UN and WTO Legal Restraints?

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Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

DOI
- doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2024-1-103
- ISSN: 0044-2348
- ISSN online: 2942-3562
Abstract

The current human disasters – like illegal wars of aggression, violent suppression of human and democratic rights, health pandemics, climate change, ocean pollution, overfishing and other biodiversity losses, non-compliance with United Nations (UN) and World Trade Organization (WTO) law – reflect governance failures and insufficient cooperation (section I.) to protect the ‘sustainable development goals’ (SDGs). Since 1950, Europe’s multilevel constitutionalism succeeded in progressively limiting transnational governance failures; yet, it is not followed outside Europe (section II.). Geopolitical rivalries (e. g. among authoritarian and democratic states) and competing national and regional regulations (e. g. on decarbonisation, digitalisation, and securitisation of economies) increasingly undermine UN and WTO legal restraints and judicial remedies (see section III.). The more globalisation is perceived as creating vulnerabilities justifying national security restrictions (e. g. against spread of viruses, weaponisation of interdependence), the more democracies resort to plurilateral second-best responses like trade, investment and environmental agreements conditioning market access on respect for human rights and greenhouse gas reductions (section IV.). This contribution explains why regulatory competition, ‘authoritarian alliances’, and their influence on plurilateral agreements (e. g. in Asia) render ‘constitutional UN/WTO reforms’ and realisation of the SDGs unlikely.
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