European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2024

As global economic governance faces mounting challenges from climate change to geopolitical shifts the 2024 edition of EYIEL revisits the enduring debate of fragmentation vs. integration in international economic law. Exploring trade, investment, sustainability, and human rights, this volume examines the evolving interplay between economic regulation and pressing global concerns. With insights from leading scholars, it asks: Are we moving towards greater legal cohesion or deeper disintegration?

List of contents

Distinguished Essay, by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann.- Part I Moving Towards Integration: Trade: Sustainable Development Within the Context of International Trade Law by Ilke Göçmen.- Technology Transfer Under the TRIPS Agreement: A Comeback to Address Global Crises by Francisco Herna ndez Ferna ndez.- Taking on a Life of Its Own? The Dynamic Institutional Architecture of the New Generation Trade Agreements of the EU by Sophia Paulini.- Human Rights and Global Supply Chains: European Trends and Developments by Giesela Rühl.- Trade Prohibitions on Forced-Labour Products: A First Assessment of the Forthcoming EU s Forced Labour Regulation by Valentina Grado.- Fundamental Economic Rights and the Market Access Constitution of the EU Internal Market by Rufat Babayev.- The EU Governance through Trade Regulatory Model for the Sustainable Production and Consumption of Deforestation-Risk Commodities (DRCs): The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the Issues at Stake in its Implementation Stage by Concetta Maria Pontecorvo.- Policy Coherence for Development in the EU's Multidimensional Toolbox Against Deforestation: Unilateral, Bilateral and Multilateral Efforts by Saide Esra Akdogan and Francesco Cazzini.- Alcohol Causes Cancer : Objections to an Irish Labelling Law Reopen Old Debates About Trade and Non-Trade Issues and New Debates About Interaction of WTO and EU Law by Benn McGrady and Elisabet Ruiz Cairó.- The Quest of Balancing Data Regulatory Autonomy and International Commitments Assessing the Impact of the General Agreement on Trade in Services and European Union Vietnam Free Trade Agreement on Vietnam by Ngo Nguyen Thao Vy and Nguyen Xuan My Hien.- Short-Circuiting Technological Sovereignty? Assessing the Governance of Semiconductor Supply Chain (Chokepoints) Through the Lens of Emerging Export Control Regimes by Anh Nguyen.- Part II Moving Towards Integration: Investment: The Legalisation of Corporate Social Responsibility in International Investment Agreements by Beichen Ding.- The Development of EU Investment Protection Policy through the Member States Challenges and Opportunities for the EU by Eleftheria Asimakopoulou.- Third-Party Claims Before the Multilateral Investment Court: Enhancing Third-Party Rights in Investment Treaty Arbitration by Zamira Xhaferri and Jesús Robles.- Fortiter In Re, Suaviter In Modo? Are Legality Clauses the Better Investor Obligations in International Investment Agreements? by Christian Daniel Hein.- Investors' Human Rights Obligations under International Investment Law Current Practice by Huyen Doan.- The Right to Regulate in Environmental Protection Insights From the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement and Implications for Vietnam by Nguyen Thi Lan Huong.- Worlds Apart: The Fairness Dimension of Securitisation Narratives in the Climate Change and Foreign Investment Context by Zaker Ahmad.- Reassessing State Consent in Investment Arbitration Vis-À-Vis Security Issues by Alexandros Bakos and Gautam Mohanty.

About the author

Jelena Bäumler is Professor of Public and International Law with a special focus on sustainability at the Leuphana University Lüneburg. She has been elected as Vice President of Leuphana University Lüneburg and is the programme director of the Erasmus Mundus Master of International Law of Global Security Peace and Development. She acts as Counsel and Advisor in various international proceedings and has been a visiting Professor in China, South Africa and New Zealand. Her research focuses on Public International Law, Trade Law and International Environmental Law.
Christina Binder is Professor for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University Munich since April 2017. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna. Christina was member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) 2014-2022 and also served as ESIL’s Vice-President. Her research focuses on a number of public international law issues, including human rights, the law of treaties, international investment law, democracy and political participation as well as international environmental law. She is co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte, the European Yearbook of International Economic Law and of the Hungarian Yearbook of International and European Law and has widely published, in edited volumes and in peer-reviewed journals.
 Marc Bungenberg is Director of the Europa-Institut and Professor of public law, European law, public international law and international economic law as well as Director of the Europa-Institut and Jean Monnet Chair European Constitutional Framework of International Dispute Settlement and Rule of Law Saarland University in Germany (since 2015), visiting professor at the University of Lausanne/Switzerland (since 2011). He has taught at inter alia Sydney, Geneva, Lucerne, Lausanne, Taschkent, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich. He received his doctorate in law from the University of Hannover and wrote his habilitation treatise at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He holds an LL.M. from Lausanne University. His main fields of research are European (Common Commercial Policy, public procurement and state aid law) and international economic law, particularly international investment, raw materials and WTO law.
Markus Krajewski is University Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and holds the Chair in Public Law and Public International Law. He is one of the programme directors of the MA in Human Rights and chairperson of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN). He also chairs the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights and isSecretary-General of the German Branch of the International Law Association.
Giesela Rühl is Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law at Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany). She is the author and editor of numerous publications dealing with private international law and international civil procedure. She serves as the Secretary General of the European Association of Private International Law and is a member of various academic institutions including the European Law Institute, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the International Academy of Comparative Law.
Christian J. Tams is Professor of International Law at the Universities of Glasgow and Paris 1 (Panthéon Sorbonne) and currently serves as Vice-President of the European Society of International Law. His research focuses on public international law, with a focus on dispute settlement, State responsibility and investment protection. An academic member of Matrix Chambers London, Christian is regularly instructed by States, individuals and investors in proceedings before international courts and tribunals.
Jörg Philipp Terhechte (†) was Professor for Public Law, European and International Law, Regulation and Competition Law at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He was managing director of the Leuphana Competition & Regulation Institute and since 2013 head of Leuphana’s Professional School. He was appointed vice-president of Leuphana University of Lüneburg in 2016. Since 2018 Terhechte was Professor for European and International Economic Law at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Professor at St. Andrews in 2021 and 2022.
Andreas R. Ziegler is Professor of International Law at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Director of its LLM Program in International Business Law as well as its Centre for Comparative, European and International Law. Previously he was a civil servant working for several Swiss Ministries (Foreign Affairs, Trade) and international organizations (EFTA, EU). He regularly advises Governments, International Organizations, NGOs and private clients whom he has also represented before various domestic and international courts and arbitral tribunals.

Summary

As global economic governance faces mounting challenges—from climate change to geopolitical shifts—the 2024 edition of EYIEL revisits the enduring debate of fragmentation vs. integration in international economic law. Exploring trade, investment, sustainability, and human rights, this volume examines the evolving interplay between economic regulation and pressing global concerns. With insights from leading scholars, it asks: Are we moving towards greater legal cohesion or deeper disintegration?

Product details

• Assisted by: Jelena Bäumler (Editor), Christina Binder (Editor), Marc Bungenberg (Editor), Marc Bungenberg et al (Editor), Markus Krajewski (Editor), Giesela Rühl (Editor), Christian J. Tams (Editor), Jörg Philipp Terhechte (Editor), Andreas R. Ziegler (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.09.2025
• EAN: 9783031920998
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3192099-8
• No. of pages: 600
• Illustrations: Approx. 600 p.
• Series: European Yearbook of International Economic Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Integration, Climate Change, Human Rights, environmental protection, Labour law, International Economic Law, Trade Law, European Economic Law, International Economic Law