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This book examines how voluntary sustainability standards can be used to both regulate and coordinate producers in industries.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Between co-ordination and regulation: the dual functions of voluntary sustainability standards; 2. The socio-legal analysis of sustainability standards; 3. Governing public forests with private standards: the case of FSC in the Great Lakes region; 4. Certifying global palm oil productions: the case of the roundtable on sustainable palm oil; 5. Meta-regulating sustainability standards: the case of ISEAL alliance; 6. The politics of transnational sustainability laws; Conclusion.
About the author
Phillip Paiement is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, The Netherlands and received his doctorate at Tilburg Law School in 2015. He has served as an editorial committee member of the journal Transnational Legal Theory since 2014, and as a Board Member of the Dutch Association for Law and Society since 2016. He is also an alumnus of the King's College London Transnational Law Summer Institute and the Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Politics Regional Workshop. In 2015, he co-founded the Translocal Law Collaborative Research Group affiliated with King's College London.
Summary
This book appeals to legal scholars and students interested in socio-legal studies, transnational law, environmental law, labour law, and legal theory. It introduces them to sustainability standards more commonly studied by political scientists and sociologists, and analyses their capacity to function as a form of transnational legal governance.
