Analyzing globalization and the increasing tension it has caused between the goals of free trade and environmental protection, International Trade and the Protection of the Environment provides a comprehensive and detailed legal analysis, both at the national and international level of what looks set to become the new legal order of the twenty-first Century.

This book as the questions does the treatment of measures tantamount to expropriation have the capacity to lead to a regulatory chill on environmental protection and what are the possibilities for claims before the UK courts that are...