African Regional Trade Agreements As Legal Regimes

Gathii authoritatively analyzes and evaluates the growing importance of regional trade integration in Africa and exposes its successes and failures.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. African RTAs as flexible legal regimes; 2. Variable geometry: a defining aspect of African RTAs; 3. Multiple memberships in African RTAs; 4. African RTAs in the context of Article XXIV of GATT; 5. Trade liberalization commitments and realization timeframes; 6. Financing African RTAs; 7. African RTA judiciaries; 8. Trade remedy regimes; 9. Monetary unions in Africa; 10. Intra-African regional trade integration; 11. African RTA relations with non-African RTAs.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

James Thuo Gathii is Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law, Albany Law School. He is author of War, Commerce and International Law (2010) and over 50 articles and book chapters.

Zusammenfassung

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal framework of African regional trade integration. It will fill a huge knowledge gap and serve as an invaluable teaching and research tool for policy makers in the public and private sectors, teachers, researchers and students of African trade and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Thuo Gathii, Gathii James Thuo
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107670303
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67030-3
• Seiten: 524
• Serien: Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law; Cambridge International Trade; Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; Law, Africa, LAW / International, trade agreements, International Economics, International Trade, International economic & trade law, International trade and commerce, Public international law: economic and trade