tailieunhanh - The Constitution of Private Governance Product Standards in the Regulation of Integrating Markets

EARLY LAST CENTURY, the People’s Amusement Company operated a playhouse where it provided all sorts of entertainment to the people of Topeka, Kansas. One day, a building inspector saw to his horror that the electrical wiring of the theatre lay bare and was not enclosed in conduit or armoured cable. The People were not amused. Licenses were withdrawn, fines were imposed. The Law had been offended. Or had it? | The Constitution of Private Governance In quantity and importance private standards are rapidly taking over the role of public norms in the international and national regulation of product safety. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rise role and status of these private product safety standards in the legal regulation of integrating markets. in international and regional trade law as in European and American constitutional and administrative law tort law and antitrust law the book analyses the ways in which legal systems can and do recognise private norms as law. This sociological question of law s recognition of private governance is indissolubly connected with a normative question of democratic theory can law recognise legal validity and democratic legitimacy outside the constitution without constitutional political institutions and beyond the nation state Or can law constitute private transnational governance The book offers the first systematic treatment of European American and international standards law in the English language and makes a significant contribution to the study of the processes of globalisation and privatisation in social and legal theory. International Studies in the Theory of Private Law This series of books edited by a distinguished international team of legal scholars aims to investigate the normative and theoretical foundations of the law governing relations between citizens. The context for such investigations of private law systems is set by important modern tendencies in systems of governance. The advent of the regulatory state marks the withdrawal of the state from direct control and management of social and economic activity and the adoption instead of procedural regulation and co-regulatory strategies that promote the use of private law techniques of ordering and self-regulation in social and economic interactions between citizens. The tendency known as globalisation and the corresponding increases in cross-border .