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Weaving together theory and practice, the chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive assessment of sustainable development provisions in international trade agreements. The volume offers important reflections upon the real extent and the foreseeable consequences of this sustainability revolution.
List of contents
- 1: A Sustainability Revolution? The Role of Trade Agreements
- Part I Sustainability in International Trade Agreements: Conflict or Complementarity
- 2: Embedding Sustainable Development in Trade
- 3: Making Trade Agreements Contribute to Sustainability : The Potential of Behavioural Science
- 4: Evaluating the Sustainability Agenda in International Trade Agreements: Aims, Effectiveness, Legitimacy, and Importance
- 5: Sustainable Development and International Economic Law: Intersections or Convergence?
- 6: Trade and Environment Negotiations at the WTO: A New Opportunity for SIDS?
- Part II Sustainability Obligations: Content and Compliance
- 7: Labour Standards in EU Free Trade Agreements: Substantive Issues and Recent Developments Concerning Their Enforcement
- 8: Trade Agreements and Disability Inclusion: Looking Beyond Labour and Gender Equality Provisions
- 9: Infusing Indigenous Worldviews in Trade and Sustainability Agreements
- 10: The Legal Links between Free Trade Agreements and Multilateral Environmental Agreements
- 11: Exploring the Nexus of Environmental Sustainability and International Trade: The Significance of Self-Standing Obligations
- 12: Integrating Climate Action into Free Trade Agreements
- 13: Sustainability Obligations and Developing Countries: Any Scope for Special and Differential Treatment?
- 14: Enforcing Sustainability Obligations: Adjudication and Post-Adjudication Enforcement
- 15: Enforcing International Sustainability Standards on International and National Platforms
- 16: Decentralized Enforcement of Sustainability Commitments: Rebalancing, Targeted Enforcement, and Production Requirements in Trade Agreements
- 17: State and Private Accountability through the Rapid Response Labour Mechanism : Scope, Purposes, and Prospects for Effectiveness
- 18: Sustainability Obligations in Trade Agreements: Do Exceptions and Defences Apply?
- Part III Sustainability in Trade Agreements and the Future of the Global Economy
- 19: Copernican Revolution or Green Protectionism?
- 20: The Role of 'Development' in Sustainable Development in Trade Agreements
- 21: Interactions Between Free Trade Agreements' Sustainability Provisions and WTO Law
- 22: Sustainability Meets Trade: Assessing Trade Agreements' New Endeavour to Incorporate Sustainability Issues
- 23: From Neoliberalism to Ordoliberalism, and Beyond: Sustainability and Trade Governance
- 24: The Road Ahead
About the author
Geraldo Vidigal is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he coordinates the LLM in International Trade and Investment Law. He is Managing Editor of Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Kluwer) Theme Developer for International Economic Law at Oxford International Organizations. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, an LLM in International Law from the Sorbonne Law School, and a Bachelor's in Law from the University of São Paulo. He integrates the roster of dispute settlement panellists of the World Trade Organization, where he was previously a Dispute Settlement Lawyer, and of the European Union (for trade as well as sustainable development).
Kathleen Claussen is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. She is the author of more than 40 articles and essays concerning trade, investment, and international dispute settlement, among other related research areas. She has also acted as counsel or arbitrator in over two dozen international disputes. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law, published by Oxford University Press. Professor Claussen is a graduate of the Yale Law School, Queen's University Belfast (where she was a Mitchell Scholar), and Indiana University where she was a Wells Scholar.
Summary
Weaving together theory and practice, the chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive assessment of sustainable development provisions in international trade agreements. The volume offers important reflections upon the real extent and the foreseeable consequences of this sustainability revolution.
