Includes bibliographical references and index.

Private accountability in a globalising world / Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg, Gerd Winter -- Global legal pluralism and interlegality : environmental self-regulation in multinational enterprises as global law-making / Martin Herberg -- Bridging the gap : the legal potential of private regulation / Carola Glinski -- Codes of conduct and framework agreements on social minimum standards - private regulation? / Eva Kocher -- Proactive compliance? repercussions of national product regulation in standards of transnational business networks / Olaf Dilling -- Transnational management of hazardous chemicals by interfirm cooperation and associations / Alexandra Lindenthal -- The new universe of green finance : from self-regulation to multi-polar governance / Oren Perez -- The social and technical self-governance of privacy / Ralf Bendrath -- Transnational consumer law : co-regulation of B2C e-commerce / Gralf-Peter Calliess -- Multi-interest self-governance through global product certification programmes / Errol Meidinger -- State and private sector in a cooperative regulation : the Forest Stewardship Council and other product labels in Brazil / Cristiane Derani, Jose Augusto Fontoura Costa -- Regulatory networks and multi-level global governance / Sol Picciotto.

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