Trade Agreements at the Crossroads

ISBN-13: 9780415635257 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 272 str.

Meredith Lewis; Susy Frankel

Opis

This work examines trade agreements in the context of the current world economic crisis and the uncompleted World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations.

Spis treści

Part I: Trade Agreements and Dispute Settlement  1. What to Do When Disagreement Strikes?: The Complexity of Dispute Settlement under Trade Agreements  2. Expanding the Trade Litigator’s Toolkit: Developing Tools to Achieve Effective and Legitimate Resolution of Disputes under PACER Plus and Other Trade Agreements  3. Exploring the Differences Between WTO and Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution  4. The WTO Standard of Review: A Means to Strengthen the Trading System  Part II Trade Agreements in the Modern Era: A Focus on the Asia-Pacific  5. Market Access: An Institutional Challenge to China  6. China’s Regionalism: Working Towards a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership?  7. Asia-Pacific Product Safety Regulation in an FTA Era  Part III: Evolving Trade Agreement Dynamics: Challenging Established Concepts  8. Regulatory Cooperation and Free Trade Agreements  9. Implementation and Monitoring of Process and Production Methods  10. The International Law Commission Work on MFN Clauses – A Worthwhile Venture  11. The TRIPS Agreement and Cross-Retaliation

O autorze

Susy Frankel is Professor at Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington and Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law. Meredith Kolsky Lewis is Associate Professor and Director of the Canada - US Legal Studies Centre at the SUNY Buffalo Law School and is a member of the Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law and Associate Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law.