This work examines the growing interaction between private enterprises and public officials to challenge foreign trade barriers. It calls attention to the ways in which well-organized private parties are using the World Trade Organization's legal system to advance their own commercial ambitions.  Meer

Law can no longer be viewed through a purely national lens. Transnational legal ordering affects the boundary of the state and the market, the allocation of power among national institutions, the role of professions and their expertise, and associational patterns that provide new normative frames.  Meer

Law can no longer be viewed through a purely national lens. Transnational legal ordering affects the boundary of the state and the market, the allocation of power among national institutions, the role of professions and their expertise, and associational patterns that provide new normative frames.  Meer

Since the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century, constitutions have been seen as an embodiment of national values and identity.  Meer