Examines the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry in areas such as the environment, human health and consumer interests which often escape state-based regulation.

Olaf Dilling is research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State' at Bremen University.
Martin Herberg is senior research fellow at the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State', Bremen University.
Gerd Winter is Professor of Public Law and the Sociology of Law at the University of Bremen Department of Law. He directs the Research Center for European Environmental Law as well as a section of the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State' at the same university.

Introduction: Private Accountability in a Globalizing World
Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg and Gerd Winter
Part I: Corporate Responsibility and the Law
1. Global Legal Pluralism and Interlegality. Environmental Self-Regulation in Multinational Enterprises as Global Law-Making
Martin Herberg
2. Bridging the Gap - The Legal Potential of Private Regulation
Carola Glinski
3. Codes of Conduct and Framework Agreements on Social Minimum
Standards - Private Regulation?
Eva Kocher
Part II: Standards of Transnational Business Networks and the Law
4. Proactive Compliance? - Repercussions of National Product Regulation in Standards of Transnational Business Networks
Olaf Dilling
5. Transnational Management of Hazardous Chemicals by Interfirm Cooperation and Associations
Alexandra Lindenthal
6. The New Universe of Green Finance: From Self-Regulation to Multi-Polar Governance
Oren Perez
Part III: Consumer based Self-regulation and the Law
7. The Social and Technical Self-Governance of Privacy
Ralf Bendrath
8. Transnational Consumer Law: Co-Regulation of B2C-E-Commerce
Gralf-Peter Calliess
9. Multi-Interest Self-Governance through Global Product Certification Programs
Errol Meidinger
10. State and private sector in a cooperative regulation: the Forest Stewardship Council and other product labels in Brazil
Cristiane Derani and José Augusto Fontoura Costa
Part IV. Transnational Self-governance in Perspective
11. Regulatory networks and Multi-Level global Governance
Sol Picciotto