Taking uncertainty seriously: Adaptive governance and international trade: A rejoinder to Mónica García-Salmones

European Journal of International Law

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 187-192

  Lang, Andrew ^a   Cooney, Rosie ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 65449166067     PISSN: 09385428     EISSN: 14643596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejil/chp007     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. See, from among a broad literature, Koskenniemi, 'The Fate of International Law: Between Technique and Politics', 70 MLR (2007) 1
2. Kennedy, 'Challenging Expert Rule: The Politics of Global Governance', 27 Sydney J Int'l L (2005) 5.
3. The centrality that the concept of 'fundamental uncertainty' holds in our argument clearly signals, we hope, our rejection of any simplistic view of scientific knowledge as singular truth.
4. Adler and Bernstein, 'Knowledge in Power: The Epistemic Construction of Global Governance', in M. Barnett and R. Duvall (eds), Power in Global Governance (2005), at 294, 295.
5. See Kennedy, supra note 1.
6. Cooney and Lang, 'Taking Uncertainty Seriously: Adaptive Governance, Alien Invasive Species and the WTO', 18 EJIL (2007) 523, at 538ff.
7. Ibid.
8. Picciotto, 'Democratizing Globalism', in D. Drache (ed.), The Market or the Public Domain: Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power (2001), at 335, also available at: www.yorku.ca/robarts/archives/ pub_domain/pdf/apd_piciottofin.pdf, at 29.
9. Koskenniemi, supra note 1, at 4.
10. García-Salmones also notes, for example, 'institutional trade specialization inevitably determines the particular structural bias for trade of the WTO over any other concern which the organisation might face, be it of environmental or labour issues, human rights or development'. (XX).
11. Cooney and Lang, supra note 5, at 540-542.
12. See, e.g., Esty, 'Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide', 15(3) J Economic Perspectives (2001) 113.
13. Koskenniemi, supra note 1, at 7.
14. Ibid., at 26.
15. For a development of this theme by one of us see Lang, 'Reflecting on Linkage: Cognitive and Institutional Change in the International Trading System', 70 MLR (2007) 523.
16. Cooney and Lang, supra note 5, at 534.