This book offers a comprehensive account of the transatlantic regulatory cooperation phenomenon: its causes and political context in a globalizing economy, its theoretical understanding, its relationship to trade and competition, its implications for democracy, and its likely directions in the future.

George Bermann is Professor of Law at Columbia University School of Law Universitat Bonn, Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftlich Fakultat Associate Director of the European Legal Studies Center at Columbia Law School

Foreword

vii

Ambassador Richard N. Gardner

Notes on Contributors

xv

Introduction

1

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George A. Bermann

Matthias Herdegen

Peter L. Lindseth

Part I. Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Thepolitical And Legal Framework

Transatlantic economic partnership: Breaking down the hidden barriers

The Right Honourable Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, QC

17

(8)

The United States and Europe: seeking common ground

25

(4)

Ambassador David L. Aaron

Globalization and the rule of law

29

(6)

Jean-Louis Dewost

Listening in on the US-EU legal dialogue

35

(4)

David R. Andrews

The Transatlantic Business Dialogue: the Perspective of the European chemical industry

39

(8)

Hans-Ulrich Engel

Part II: Globalization And Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation

The locational and institutional embeddedness of the global economy

47

(52)

Saskia Sassen

Global economic networks and global legal pluralism

99

(20)

Francis Snyder

Part III: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Theoretical Perspectives

International regulatory cooperation: a neo-institutionalist approach

119

(28)

Giandomenico Majone

The 'demand' for international regulatory cooperation: a public-choice perspective

147

(20)

Jonathan R. Macey

Regulatory and competition: the search for virtue

167

(38)

Paul B. Stephan

Part IV: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation, International Trade And Competition Law

Reconciling transatlantic regulatory imperatives with bilateral trade

205

(18)

Mauro Pettricione

Transatlantic regulatory cooperation from a trade perspective: a case study in accounting standards

223

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Joel P. Trachtman

Competition law: linking the world

243

(10)

Eleanor M. Fox

Transatlantic regulatory cooperation in competition policy: the case for' soft harmonization and multilateralism over new bilateral US--EU institutions

253

(10)

Merit E. Janow

Transatlantic regulatory cooperation: exclusive club or' open regionalism?

263

(10)

Petros C. Mavroidis

Part V: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation In Selected Sectors

Telecommunications and cyberspace': transatlantic regulatory cooperation and the constitutionalization of international law

273

(28)

Klaus W. Grewlich

Biotechnology and regulatory risk assessment

301

(18)

Matthias Herdegen

Existing legal and institutional mechanisms for cooperation and coordination: the case of intellectual and industrial property

319

(18)

Josef Drexl

International governance for voluntary standards: a game-theoretic perspective

337

(20)

Walter Mattli

Part VI: The Interface Between International Regulatory Initiatives And The Domestic Legal Environment

US and EU structures of governance as barriers to transatlantic regulatory cooperation

357

(16)

Jonathan R. Macey

International regulatory cooperation and US federalism

373

(12)

George A. Bermann

Implementing regulatory cooperation through executive agreements and the problem of democratic accountability

385

(20)

Joel R. Paul

Integrating regulatory cooperation into the EU system

405

(26)

Gerhard Lohan

The respective powers of the European Community and Member States in transatlantic regulatory cooperation

431

(20)

Paul Demaret

The implementation of transatlantic regulatory initiatives in Europe

451

(18)

Reimer von Borries

Part VII: Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation, Democracy, And Accountability

Transatlantic regulatory cooperation and the problem of democracy

469

(12)

Robert Howse

Glogalization, transatlantic regulatory cooperation, and democratic values

481

(14)

Ludger Kuhnhardt

North Atlantic cooperation and democratizing globalism

495

(26)

Sol Picciotto

Agencies on the loose? Holding government networks accountable

521

(26)

Anne-Marie Slaughter

The challenges of globally accessible process

547

(24)

Peter L. Strauss

Part VIII: The Future Of Regulatory Cooperation: Strategic Directions And Institutional Implications

Regulatory cooperation and managed mutual recognition: elements of a strategic model

571

(30)

Kalypso Nicolaidis

Building the 'Transatlantic Economic Partnership': are new general institutions needed?

601

(14)

Wulf-Henning Roth

Globalization and transatlantic regulatory cooperation: proposals for EU-US initiatives to further constitutionalize international law

615

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Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

Index

629

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