Saturday, August 6, 2016

New Volume: European Yearbook of International Economic Law

The latest volume of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (Vol. 7, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Part I Topics: Critical Perspectives on International Economic Law
    • Sol Picciotto, Critical Theory and Practice in International Economic Law and the New Global Governance
    • David Schneiderman, Global Constitutionalism and International Economic Law: The Case of International Investment Law
    • Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, From Fragmentation to Constitutionalisation of International Economic Law? Comments on Schneiderman’s ‘Constitutionalism’
    • Melaku Geboye Desta, 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
    • Christian Häberli, Agricultural Trade: How Bad Is the WTO for Development?
    • Jane Kelsey, From GATS to TiSA: Pushing the Trade in Services Regime Beyond the Limits
    • Panagiotis Delimatsis, Trade in Services and Regulatory Flexibility: 20 Years of GATS, 20 Years of Critique
    • Carlos M. Correa, The Current System of Trade and Intellectual Property Rights
    • Nuno Pires de Carvalho, The Current System of Intellectual Property Rights Aims to Promote Trade and Not Innovation
    • Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, International Investment Law as Development Law: The Obsolescence of a Fraudulent System
    • Roberto Echandi, 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
    • Kate Miles, Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Conflict, Convergence, and Future Directions
    • Stephan W. Schill, In Defense of International Investment Law
    • Celine Tan, Shifting Sands: Interrogating the Problematic Relationship Between International Public Finance and International Financial Regulation
    • Christian Tietje, Problematic Relationships: Why International Economic Law Is Sometimes More Complicated Than It Appears
    • Peter Muchlinski, Regulating Multinational Enterprises
    • Ibrahim Kanalan, Horizontal Effect of Human Rights in the Era of Transnational Constellations: On the Accountability of Private Actors for Human Rights Violations
    • Sarah Joseph, Human Rights and International Economic Law
    • Lorand Bartels, International Economic Law and Human Rights: Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
  • Part II Regional Developments: Focus on Megaregionals and Plurilaterals
    • Meredith Kolsky Lewis, The United States’ Path to Concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Will TPA + TAA = TPP?
    • Henry Gao, TPP, Regulatory Coherence and China’s Free Trade Strategy from A to Z
    • Bryan Mercurio, The Flow-On Effect: How the TPP Will Re-Shape Trade Relations in East Asia
    • Jan Kleinheisterkamp & Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen, Investment Protection in TTIP: Three Feasible Proposals
    • Simon Lester, Six Degrees of Integration: How Closely Will the TTIP Integrate the Transatlantic Market?
    • Charlotte Sieber-Gasser, TTIP and Swiss Democracy
    • Azwimpheleli Langalanga & Peter Draper, Locating African Countries within Mega-Regionals
    • Vincent Angwenyi, The Tripartite Free Trade Area: A Step Closer to the African Economic Community?
    • Emmanuel Opoku Awuku, Developing and Least-Developed Countries and Mega-Regional Trade and Investment Agreements
    • Billy A. Melo Araujo, The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA): Assessing the State of Play and Potential Pitfalls
  • Part III International Economic Institutions
    • Jan Bohanes, Alejandro Sánchez, & Alexandra Telychko, Overview of WTO Jurisprudence in 2014
    • Catharine Titi, Recent Developments in International Investment Law
    • Ludwig Gramlich, Recent Developments in IMF Policies and Activities
    • Elisabeth Tuerk & Diana Rosert, The Road Towards Reform of the International Investment Agreement Regime: A Perspective from UNCTAD
    • Carsten Weerth, Recent Developments in the World Customs Organization