European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2016

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Critical Theory and Practice in International Economic Law and the New Global Governance....Pages 3-22
Global Constitutionalism and International Economic Law: The Case of International Investment Law....Pages 23-43
From Fragmentation to Constitutionalisation of International Economic Law? Comments on Schneiderman’s ‘Constitutionalism’....Pages 45-66
Trade in Agricultural Products: Should Developing Countries Give Up on the WTO Promise for a Fair and Market-Oriented Agricultural Trading System? A Historical and Theoretical Analysis....Pages 67-102
Agricultural Trade: How Bad Is the WTO for Development?....Pages 103-117
From GATS to TiSA: Pushing the Trade in Services Regime Beyond the Limits....Pages 119-151
Trade in Services and Regulatory Flexibility: 20 Years of GATS, 20 Years of Critique....Pages 153-173
The Current System of Trade and Intellectual Property Rights....Pages 175-197
The Current System of Intellectual Property Rights Aims to Promote Trade and Not Innovation....Pages 199-208
International Investment Law as Development Law: The Obsolescence of a Fraudulent System....Pages 209-231
Be Careful with What You Wish: Saving Developing Countries from Development and the Risk of Overlooking the Importance of a Multilateral Rule-Based System on Investment in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 233-271
Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Conflict, Convergence, and Future Directions....Pages 273-308
In Defense of International Investment Law....Pages 309-341
Shifting Sands: Interrogating the Problematic Relationship Between International Public Finance and International Financial Regulation....Pages 343-375
Problematic Relationships: Why International Economic Law Is Sometimes More Complicated Than It Appears....Pages 377-389
Regulating Multinational Enterprises....Pages 391-421
Horizontal Effect of Human Rights in the Era of Transnational Constellations: On the Accountability of Private Actors for Human Rights Violations....Pages 423-460
Human Rights and International Economic Law....Pages 461-484
International Economic Law and Human Rights: Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?....Pages 485-492
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
The United States’ Path to Concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Will TPA + TAA = TPP?....Pages 495-505
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
TPP, Regulatory Coherence and China’s Free Trade Strategy from A to Z....Pages 507-514
The Flow-On Effect: How the TPP Will Re-Shape Trade Relations in East Asia....Pages 515-525
Investment Protection in TTIP: Three Feasible Proposals....Pages 527-541
Six Degrees of Integration: How Closely Will the TTIP Integrate the Transatlantic Market?....Pages 543-555
TTIP and Swiss Democracy....Pages 557-570
Locating African Countries within Mega-Regionals....Pages 571-588
The Tripartite Free Trade Area: A Step Closer to the African Economic Community?....Pages 589-613
Developing and Least-Developed Countries and Mega-Regional Trade and Investment Agreements....Pages 615-626
The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA): Assessing the State of Play and Potential Pitfalls....Pages 627-648
Front Matter....Pages 649-649
Overview of WTO Jurisprudence in 2014....Pages 651-702
Recent Developments in International Investment Law....Pages 703-731
Recent Developments in IMF Policies and Activities....Pages 733-768
The Road Towards Reform of the International Investment Agreement Regime: A Perspective from UNCTAD....Pages 769-786
Recent Developments in the World Customs Organization....Pages 787-799
Front Matter....Pages 801-801
Valentina Vadi, Bruno de Witte (Eds.), Culture and International Economic Law....Pages 803-809
Thomas Cottier, Rosa M. Lastra, Christian Tietje, Lucía Satragno (Eds.), The Rule of Law in Monetary Affairs: World Trade Forum....Pages 811-817
Karl Sauvant and Federico Ortino, Improving the International Investment Law and Policy Regime: Options for the Future....Pages 819-822
Diane Desierto, Public Policy in International Economic Law: The ICESCR in Trade, Finance, and Investment....Pages 823-830
Juliane Ahner, Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren Nach Europäischem Unionsrecht: Zulässigkeit und Ausgestaltung in Investitionsabkommen der Europäischen Union....Pages 831-834
Aikaterini Titi, The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law....Pages 835-838