Overview

The proliferation of regional trade agreements, including both free trade agreements and customs unions, over the past decade has provoked many new legal issues in WTO law, public international law, and an emerging law of regional trade agreements. The various Parts of this book chart this development from a number of perspectives. Part 1 introduces the economic and political underpinnings of regional trade agreements, their constitutional functions, and their role as a locus for integrating trade and human rights. Part 2 examines the WTO rules governing regional trade agreements, focusing on a number of areas in which regional trade agreements prove problematic, such as trade remedies, regulatory standards and rules of origin. Part 3 investigates areas in which regional trade agreements go beyond WTO rules, in areas such as intellectual property, investment, competition, services, sustainable development and mutual recognition, while Part 4 is devoted to the dispute settlement mechanisms of regional trade agreements, and includes illuminating case studies. Part 5 explores the interrelationship between regional trade agreements and the WTO system from the perspective of public international law, involving questions with significance beyond the trade community.

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Author:   Lorand Bartels (Lecturer in International Economic Law, University of Edinburgh) ,  Federico Ortino (Reader in International Economic Law, Kings College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.989kg
ISBN:  

9780199206995

ISBN 10:   0199206996
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   14 December 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

John Jackson: Preface 1: Lorand Bartels and Federico Ortino: Introduction Part I Framework Issues 2: William Watson and Viet Dung Do: The Economic Dimension of Regional Trade Agreements and their Relation to the Multilateral Trading System: A Survey of the Literature 3: Chad Damro: The Political Economy of Regional Trade Agreements 4: Thomas Cottier and Marina Foltea: Constitutional Functions of the WTO and Regional Trade Agreements Part 2 WTO Regulation of Regional Trade Agreements 5: James Mathis: Regional Trade Agreements and Domestic Regulation: What Reach for 'Other Restrictive Regulations of Commerce' 6: Angela Gobbi Estrella and Gary Horlick: Mandatory Abolition of Antidumping, Counterveiling Duties and Safeguards in Customs Unions and Free-Trade Areas Constituted Between WTO Members: Revisiting a Long Standing Discussion in Light of the Appellate Body's Turkey - Textiles Ruling 7: Jose Antonio Rivas: Do Rules of Origin in Free Trade Agreements Comply with Article XXIV GATT? Part III WTO-plus Issues in Regional Trade Agreements 8: Markus Krajewski: Services Liberalisation in Regional Trade Agreements: Lessons for GATS 'Unfinished Business'? 9: Federico Ortino and Audley Sheppard: International Agreements Covering Foreign Investment : Patterns and Linkage 10: Bryan Mercurio: TRIPS-Plus Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements 11: Melaku Desta and Naomi Barnes: Competition Law and Regional Trade Agreements 12: Gareth Davies: Is Mutual Recognition an Alternative to Harmonisation? Lesson on Trade and Tolerance of Diversity from the EU 13: Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann: The WTO, Regional Trade Agreements and Human Rights 14: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger: Sustainable Development in Regional Trade Agreements Part IV Dispute Settlement in Regional Trade Agreements 15: Bill Davey: Dispute Settlement in Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO 16: Armand de Mestral: NAFTA Dispute Settlement: Creative Experiment or Confusion? 17: Ignacio Garcia Bercero: Bilateral Dispute Settlement in EU Free Trade Agreements: Lessons Learned? 18: Andreas Ziegler: Dispute Settlement in Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: The EFTA Experience 19: Yan Luo: Dispute Settlement in the Proposed East Asia Regional Trade Agreements: What Can We Learn From the EU and NAFTA? Part V Interfaces Between the WTO and Regional Trade Agreements 20: Piet Eeckhout: The EU and its Member States in the WTO: Issues of Responsibility 21: Kyung Kwak and Gabrielle Marceau: Overlaps and Conflicts of Jurisdiction Between the WTO and RTA's 22: Locknie Hsu: Applicability of WTO Law in Regional Trade Agreements: Identifying the Links 23: Isabelle Van Damme: What Role is there for Regional International Law in the Interpretation of the WTO Agreements?

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<br> The 2006 collection of papers edited by Lorand Bartels and Federico Ortino is to be welcomed as an overdue contribution to the field. For those interested in the topical and consequential issue of the fragmentation of international trade law, this is a collection that should be drawn upon. <br>--Global Law Books<br>

<br> The 2006 collection of papers edited by Lorand Bartels and Federico Ortino is to be welcomed as an overdue contribution to the field. For those interested in the topical and consequential issue of the fragmentation of international trade law, this is a collection that should be drawn upon. <br>--Global Law Books<p><br>

Author Information

Dr Lorand Bartels is Lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his undergraduate studies in law and English literature in Australia, and a doctorate at the European University Institute. Dr Federico Ortino is Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Trento. He was Emile Noël Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean Monnet Center in New York and Legal Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. He holds a doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence.

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