Ruling the World?

Jeffrey L. Dunoff is Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School and Professor of Law and Director, Institute for International Law and Public Policy at Temple University Beasley School of Law. During 2007–8, he served as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar in the LAPA program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and, in 2005, as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at Cambridge University. Dunoff is coauthor (with Steven Ratner and David Wippman) of a leading textbook, International Law: Actors, Norms, Process, and his writings have appeared in journals such as the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law. Joel P. Trachtman is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. From 1998 to 2001, he was Academic Dean of the Fletcher School, and, during 2000 and 2001, he served as Dean ad interim. In 2002, he was Manley O. Hudson Visiting Professor of Law, and in 2004 he was Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems, at Harvard Law School. The author of more than seventy scholarly publications, Professor Trachtman is a member of the boards of the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, and the Singapore Yearbook of International Law.

"How close are we to having an International Constitution to Rule the World? Penetrating essays in this distinguished, necessary volume offer the fullest answer we have thus far, examining through interdisciplinary lenses how constitutional discourse is reshaping international law, emerging regimes of global governance, and the growing intersection between domestic and transnational constitutions." --Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser-Designate, United States Department of State; Dean and Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale Law School

• Part I. What Is Constitutionalism Beyond the State?: 1. A functional approach to global constitutionalism Jeffrey L. Dunoff and Joel P. Trachtman; 2. The mystery of global governance David Kennedy; 3. The international legal system as a constitution Andreas Paulus; Part II. The Constitutional Dimensions of Specific International Regimes: 4. The UN charter - a global constitution? Michael Doyle; 5. Rediscovering a forgotten constitution: notes on the place of the UN charter in the international legal order Bardo Fassbender; 6. Reframing EU constitutionalism Neil Walker; 7. The politics of international constitutions: the curious case of the WTO Jeffrey L. Dunoff; 8. Constitutional economics of the WTO Joel P. Trachtman; Part III. Cross Cutting Issues: 9. Human rights and international constitutionalism Stephen Gardbaum; 10. The cosmopolitan turn in constitutionalism: on the relationship between national constitutional law and constitutionalism beyond the state Mattias Kumm; 11. Constitutional heterarchy: the centrality of conflict in the United States and Europe Daniel Halberstam; 12. Courts and pluralism: essay on a theory of judicial adjudication in the context of legal and constitutional pluralism Miguel Poiares Maduro; 13. Whose constitution(s)? International law, constitutionalism and democracy Samantha Besson.