(European) Multilevel Constitutionalism to Govern Transnational Public Goods? A Reply to Petersmann

Paolo Mazzotti

doi:10.17104/0044-2348-2024-1-141

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- 1–6 Editorial Robert Stendel Robert Stendel 1–6
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  - 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
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  - 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 141 - 156

(European) Multilevel Constitutionalism to Govern Transnational Public Goods? A Reply to Petersmann

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Paolo Mazzotti

DOI
- doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2024-1-141
- ISSN: 0044-2348
- ISSN online: 2942-3562
Abstract

In the Article hereby commented, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann further elaborates on his will-known thesis on the constitutionalisation of UN law and WTO law. Petersmann argues, first, that the EU provides a successful example in the governance of transnational public goods; secondly, that such success story is essentially due to the EU’s basic institutional arrangements, characterised as ‘mulitilevel constitutionalism’. Petersmann thus submits that die EU’s multilevel constitutionalism provides a viable template for the international community at large, and that the UN and die WTO should further proceed down the path of ‘hard’ constitutionalisation following the EU’s example. This Reply takes issue with the second of the Article’s assumptions. It thus argues that the notion of multilevel constitutionalism does not provide a descriptively accurate account of the structure of the European legal space. Rather, it is submitted, the literature on constitutional pluralism captures more adequately the reality of competing claims to final authority in structuring the relationship between national and supranational legal system in the context of the EU. Against this background, Petersmann’s claim the the ‘European model’ ought to be transposed to the globel stage can be nuanced. Rather than aiming at enforcing normative hierarchies through effective dispute resolution mechanisms, the ‘constitional’ value of (quasi-)universal fora such as the UN and the WTO can thus lie in the potential to provide a common ‘grammar’ to discursively structure the dialogue between competing normative views on globel affairs along lines of mutual intelligibility.
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