This symposium summarizes the main conclusions of an interdisciplinary conference on Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods at the European University Institute, Florence, in Spring 2011 and reproduces 4 of the altogether 15 conference papers.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="jgs031-FN1">-super-1</xref> This 'Introduction' identifies...

<xref ref-type="sec" rid="SEC2">Section II</xref> discusses six different conceptions of justifying international economic law (IEL). <xref ref-type="sec" rid="SEC3">Section III</xref> argues that the 'dual nature' of modern IEL requires limiting 'Westphalian conceptions' of 'international law among states' through protection of 'cosmopolitan rights' and judicial remedies...

Human rights and liberal trade rules (including WTO rules) are based on the same values: individual freedom and responsibility (e.g. to adjust to competition); non-discrimination; rule of law; access to courts and adjudication to disputes; promotion of social welfare through peaceful cooperation...

This article begins with a discussion of negotiation theories and the need for a comprehensive theory of effective international adjudication and then examines why compulsory international adjudication is more widely accepted in international economic law and in related regional integration law...

How should citizens evaluate the ever more important case law of international economic courts and their sometimes inadequate responses (e.g. by investor-state arbitration) to 'the governance gaps created by globalization (which) provide the permissive environment for wrongful acts by companies...

In July 2004, the annual conference on Preparing the Doha Development Round: WTO Negotiators Meet the Academics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence discussed the role of Developing Countries in the Doha Round: WTO Decision-Making...

Is ineffective protection of international public goods, and thereby also of interrelated national public goods, the inevitable fate of humanity? The negative answer to this question in <xref ref-type="sec" rid="SEC2">Section II</xref> argues that ineffective protection of public goods is mainly due to a lack of adequate theories,...