Books in the Studies in International Trade and Investment Law series

The book describes how, why and when the concept of good faith links the WTO Agreements with other public international norms.

This book explores the way in which 'development' has functioned within the multilateral trade regime since de-colonisation.

The contributions in this volume debate the meaning of sovereignty and the impact of international economic law on state sovereignty.

This book is an in depth analysis of the various ways in which international trade law rules impact upon human rights protection and promotion.

This book examines the tension between core labour rights defined by the International Labour Organisation and the interests of economic institutions.

This study provides a complete analysis of the related challenges in the ongoing WTO Doha Negotiations to remedy this state of affairs.

This book considers the ever complex legal networks of transnational economic governance and their legitimacy problems.

This book is the first legal treatment of tied aid and examines in detail the compatibility of tied aid with EU and WTO law.

This book attempts to reconcile the concept of free trade with a key non-trade social value - cultural diversity - in an era of economic globalization.

This book explores the means by which economic liberalisation can be reconciled with human rights and environmental protection in the regulation of international trade.

This book considers the ever complex legal networks of transnational economic governance and their legitimacy problems.

This book explores the debate about the usefulness of the 1986 UN declaration stating that the right to development is an inalienable human right.

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to learn about one of the new regional trade agreements (RTAs), the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), that has been operational since December 2015 and is now at the forefront of the field. This new agreement reflects many of the modern and up-to-date approaches within the international economic legal order that must now exist within a very different environment than that of the late eighties and early nineties, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created. The book, therefore, explores many new features that were not present when the WTO or early RTAs were negotiated. It provides insights and lessons about new and important trade issues for the twenty-first century, such as the latest approaches to the regulation of investment, twenty-first century services and the emerging digital/knowledge economy. In addition, this book provides new understandings of the latest RTA approaches of China and Australia. The book's contributors, all foremost experts on their subject matter within this field, explore the inclusion of many traditional trade and investment agreement features in the ChAFTA, showing their continuing relevance in modern contexts.

The accession of the People's Republic of China to the WTO significantly transformed global economic relations. This book systematically analyses and explains the development, nature and challenges of rules-based regional economic integration in East Asia.