pt. 1. Global governance through private standards : the cases of natural resources, food and labour conditions -- pt. 2. Private food standards and global governance : economic perspectives -- pt. 3. Private food standards and global governance : legal perspectives.

This paper seeks to shed light on a notion that is often considered essential in conferring global regulatory authority, but is rarely defined in contemporary scholarship on global governance: the notion of legitimacy. The authors center their analysis on the value of democracy as one of the...

Private standards have increasingly become a contentious issue in the multilateral trading system. The ever increasing number of sector-specific standards developed by businesses, in particular in the food market, may have significant implications for developing countries in terms of market...