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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 This book is concerned with the legal aspects of regional trade agreements - free trade agreements and customs unions. There are currently around 300 regional trade agreements, and these continue to proliferate. As a result, this is becoming an increasingly important part of WTO law. This book investigates these agreements, and examines their regulation under WTO rules. It also looks at the relationship of these agreements to the WTO from the perspective of public international law. 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 talks about the legal aspects of regional trade agreements, and looks at the relationship of these agreements to the WTO. 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: 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: Do Rules of Origin in Free Trade Agreements Comply with Article XXIV GATT? 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: International Agreements Covering Foreign Investment : 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 Mutual Recognition an Alternative to Harmonisation? Lesson on Trade and Tolerance of Diversity from the EU 13: Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann: The WTO, Regional Trade Agreements and Human Rights 14: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger: Sustainable Development in Regional Trade Agreements Part IV Dispute Settlement in Regional Trade Agreements 15: Bill Davey: Dispute Settlement in Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO 16: Armand de Mestral: NAFTA Dispute Settlement: Creative Experiment or Confusion? 17: Ignacio Garcia Bercero: Bilateral Dispute Settlement in EU Free Trade Agreements: Lessons Learned? 18: Andreas Ziegler: Dispute Settlement in Bilateral Free Trade Agreements: The EFTA Experience 19: Yan Luo: Dispute Settlement in the Proposed East Asia Regional Trade Agreements: What Can We Learn From the EU and NAFTA? Part V ...
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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.
