The Earth As Eggshell Victim: A Global Perspective on Domestic Regulation

Abstract

"The purpose of this paper is three-fold: it will (1) link the relationship of international trade and domestic environmental regulation to a broader global discourse; (2) outline this global discourse, which includes both international and domestic elements; and (3) articulate some additional factors (beyond trade) that are now integral to the relationship between domestic environmental law and the global regulatory discourse. I maintain that a global regulatory discourse now exists, and that it involves a logic that can and should be applied to a much broader array of circumstances than is not the case."