Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts - Perceptions, Interactions and Lessons

List of contents

1. The European Union: Achievements, Ongoing Challenges
and Future Prospects
Julien Chaisse

PART I
EUROPEAN LEGAL INTEGRATION: PROCESS, DIFFICULTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2. The Rule of Law and Integration in the EU
Ian Forrester QC
3. The European Union as an Oxymoron: From Contest via Contradiction to Constitution?
Rostam J Neuwirth
4. The Social Dimension of the EU
Manfred Weiss
5. Geographical Scope and Diversity of EU Rules on Public Procurement
Trygve Ben Holland
6. Spatial Configurations of Welfare in the EU: The Case of Cross-border Healthcare
Irene Sobrino Guijarro
7. Godot is Finally Coming? The Great Convergence of Services Markets within the EU
Panagiotis Delimatsis
8. Government, Culture and Movies: In Search of a Common Understanding from a European Perspective
Susana de la Sierra

PART II
THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A GLOBAL ACTOR: ISSUES AND PARTNERS
9. The European Union and Global Economic Governance: A Leader Without a Roadmap?
Jan Wouters and Akhil Raina
10. Lessons from European Constitutionalism for Reforming Multilevel Governance of Transnational Public Goods in Asia?
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
11. The EU’s Civil Justice Policy Field: Perspectives for Asia?
Helen E Hartnell
12. Bilateralism in an Interregional World? From EU Negotiations with MERCOSUR to a Bilateral Strategic Partnership with Brazil
Katharina L Meissner
13. Reclaiming the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership through the EU–China Partnership and Cooperation Agreement: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Chien-Huei Wu
14. Legalisation of International Economic Relations: Is Asia Unique?
Shintaro Hamanaka

PART III
EUROPEAN UNION’S TRADE POLICY: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE CHALLENGES
15. Trade for All? Transparency in the EU’s Common Commercial Policy
Fernando Dias Simões
16. Investor to State Dispute Settlement Mechanisms: A Comparison of Evolving Legal Approaches in Brazilian and Latin American Relations with the European Union
Daniele Bianchi and Kirstyn Inglis
17. The Rise of the RCEP: Regional Multilateralism and its Impact on the EU–China BIT
Olga Boltenko
18. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual Property Chapter, Research in Biotechnology and Price of Medicine with Lessons from the European Union
Sufian Jusoh
19. Geographical Indications in the EU, China and Australia: WTO Case Bottling Up Over Prosecco
Danny Friedmann
20. Indian Pharma Sector’s Journey for the Innovation Panacea: Lessons from Negotiations wiTheU and RCEP
Debashis Chakraborty and Nilanjan Banik

About the author

Julien Chaisse is Professor in the School of Law at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He is an award-winning and internationally-respected expert on international economic law (trade, investment, and tax), cyberlaw, vitivinicultural law, and international dispute resolution.

His work has received wide recognition and has been cited by international courts/tribunals as well as the US and European Courts. He writes a regular column (“The Global Lawyer”) for the Financial Times’ fDI Intelligence Magazine, where he discusses current events in foreign investment law and politics. Julien Chaisse is the recipient of the Smit-Lowenfeld Prize from the International Arbitration Club of New York (2020) and the holder of the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship (2022). He also sits on the editorial boards of several high impact academic journals around the world, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Law Review and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Investment and Trade.

Julien Chaisse has extensive experience working as a corporate board member and serving on the board of directors/advisory board for a number of international organisations. He is currently President and Chair of the Asia Pacific FDI Network, a leading organisation that focuses on researching foreign direct investment and facilitating cooperation among over 100 scholars and 50 institutions. He is an accomplished senior arbitrator who is listed on the panel of the major arbitration institutions. He was recently selected for the appointment of arbitrators in bilateral disputes under the EU’s trade agreements. A number of his adjudications have been reported on by the local and international press. He is frequently called upon as an expert witness in international trade/investment litigation and arbitration to advise international organisations, governments, law firms, and private investors on private/public international law issues (eg, concessions contracts, special economic zones, investment structuring, state and international organisation immunities, and WTO accession), and has assisted over twenty jurisdictions in drafting trade/investment treaties and legislation.

Prior to joining CityU’s Law School, Julien Chaisse taught in the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009-2019), where he served both as Director of one the Faculty’s research centres and Director of the Faculty’s PhD & MPhil Programme. Before moving to Hong Kong, he worked as deputy head of the working group on the rules and regulations for multilateral trade and investment agreements at the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland (2006-2009), as a lecturer at Elite School Sciences Po Aix, France (2004-2006), and as a diplomat for France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the French Embassy in New Delhi, India (2001-2004). He has held visiting fellowships and professorships at Columbia University, Melbourne University, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, National Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, and Tokyo University.

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Product details

• Authors: Julien Chaisse
• Assisted by: Julien Chaisse (Editor), Chaisse Julien (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2021
• EAN: 9781509954698
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-5469-8
• No. of pages: 520
• Series: Modern Studies in European Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, International Relations, EU (European Union), Investment Treaties & Disputes, International Organisations & Institutions