Errol Meidinger
SUNY DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS M A RGA RET W. WONG PROFE S SOR E M E R ITU S HONORARY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSIT Y OF FREIBURG, GERMANY PhD, Northwestern University JD, Northwestern University School of Law MA, Northwestern University BA, University of North Dakota eemeid@buffalo.edu
AREAS OF INTEREST
CHAPTERS
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Governance Interactions in Sustainable
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Supply Chains Management,
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ LAW
in Transnational Business
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
Governance Interactions:
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
My research focuses on how
Advancing Marginalized Actors
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT
non-governmental actors
and Enhancing Regulatory
interact with each other and
Quality 52 (Stepan Wood, Rebecca
with governments to establish
Schmidt, Errol Meidinger, Burkard
and maintain transnational
Eberlein & Kenneth Abbott, eds.,
regulatory programs in
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).
fields where governments
LEGAL THEORY SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
BOOKS The Big Thaw: Policy, Governance and Climate Change in the
The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Circumpolar North (Ezra B.W.
Agreement and Environmental
Zubrow, Errol Meidinger & Kim Diana
Regulation, in Megaregulation
Connolly, eds., SUNY Press, 2019).
Contested: Global Economic
have typically been the main regulators—e.g., environmental protection, human rights, and food safety. I am studying how effective, fair, and
Ordering After TTP 175 (Benedict Transnational Business
Kingsbury, et al., eds., Oxford
Governance Interactions:
University Press, 2019).
democratic the emerging governance ecosystems are, and particularly, how competition
Advancing Marginalized Actors and Enhancing Regulatory
OTHER
Quality (Stepan Wood, Rebecca
Environmental Principles in
Schmidt, Errol Meidinger, Burkard
U.S. and Canadian Law (with
Eberlein & Kenneth Abbott, eds.,
Daniel A. Spitzer & Charles W.
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).
Malcomb), in Elgar Encyclopedia
and cooperation among the different regulators affects the overall system. It is important to understand these processes because the nation states have had great difficulty in
of Environmental Law 405 ARTICLES
creating effective international
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018).
environmental and social
Forward: Tempering Power, 67(3)
regulatory programs. As
Buffalo Law Review 519 (2019).
non-governmental programs become more important, we may also need to revise some of our main assumptions about what counts as law and how law is made and implemented.”
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