In an age of globalization, many regulatory problems lie beyond the reach of the nation state. Solutions have to be found which extend beyond territorial borders. Normally, we would expect international law to be the appropriate forum for addressing these issues, but this assumes formal consensus among states, which is difficult to obtain. Therefore a number of informal structures of pragmatic public governance have emerged, as an alternative to formal law-making processes, operating within the transnational space between national and international law. These structures display a great...