Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements: Volume 1 - Commentary and Analysis

This second edition provides updated, comprehensive and systemic analysis of the contents and recent trends of BRTAs.

List of contents

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Simon Lester, Bryan Mercurio and Lorand Bartels; Part II. Economics and Politics of PTAs: 2. The economics of PTAs Pravin Krishna; 3. The political economy of PTAs Olivier Cattaneo; 4. Bilateral and plurilateral PTAs David Evans; Part III. Relationship with WTO and International Law: 5. Legal requirements for PTAs under the WTO Andrew D. Mitchell and Nicolas J. S. Lockhart; 6. PTAs and public international law Andrew D. Mitchell, Tania Voon and Elizabeth Sheargold; Part IV. Legal Aspects of PTAs: A Comparative Analysis: 7. Regulatory regionalism in the WTO - are 'deep integration' processes compatible with the multilateral trading system? James H. Mathis; 8. Agriculture Timothy E. Josling; 9. Services Federico Ortino; 10. Investment Joshua P. Meltzer; 11. Government procurement Arwel Davies; 12. Intellectual property Michael Handler and Bryan Mercurio; 13. Social issues: labour, environment and human rights Lorand Bartels; 14. Dispute settlement Victoria Donaldson and Simon Lester.

About the author

Simon Lester is President of worldtradelaw.net and a trade policy analyst with the Cato Institute's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies.Bryan Mercurio is Professor and Vice Chancellor's Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.Lorand Bartels is a University Senior Lecturer in Law and a Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Summary

Aimed primarily at law professors, graduate students, lawyers and government officials working in international trade law, this second edition provides an up-to-date and detailed overview of trends and innovations in bilateral and regional trade agreements.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Lester, Simon Mercurio Lester
• Assisted by: Lorand Bartels (Editor), Lorand (University of Cambridge) Bartels (Editor), Bartels Lorand (Editor), Simon Lester (Editor), Lester Simon (Editor), Bryan Mercurio (Editor), Bryan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Mercurio (Editor), Mercurio Bryan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108464949
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46494-9
• No. of pages: 530
• Series: Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements; Bilateral and Regional Trade A; Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements; Bilateral and Regional Trade A
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, International Law, International economic & trade law, Public international law: economic and trade