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Informationen zum Autor 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 NoÃ'l 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This book examines the WTO rules governing regional trade agreements, focusing on a number of areas in which regional trade agreements prove problematic. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: Professor 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: How Free Trade Areas and their Rules of Origin Comply with GATT Article XXIV 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: Bilateral, Regional and Multilateral Agreements Covering Foreign Investment in Services: 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...
