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This extensive volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental
Law probes the essential concepts, contemporary research, and key
elements of law at the intersection of international trade and
international environmental law. Its succinct, structured entries
provide a definitive and comprehensive assessment of the
interactions between these fields, written by internationally
renowned and recognized experts. Analysing the key legal issues and
questions raised by the impact of trade on the environment, the
volume offers a thorough overview of the relationship between the
World Trade Organization and the rules of environmental law,
sustainability, and climate change. Each entry constitutes a
nuanced and lucid introduction to the major cross-cutting topics in
these dynamic fields, including examinations of national and
regional approaches, WTO disputes, and the interface between trade,
environment and areas such as human rights, investment and
development. Featuring 107 entries divided into seven thematic
parts, this volume is a landmark reference work which will prove
invaluable to academics, students and researchers in international
trade and environmental law, as well as public international law
more broadly. It will also be a key resource for practitioners,
policymakers and government officials working in any aspect of
trade and environment.
The interaction between climate change and trade has grown in
prominence in recent years. This Research Handbook contains
authoritative original contributions from leading experts working
at the interface between climate change and trade rules. Regional
as well as international perspectives are taken into account to
inform the complex questions that arise and redirect research
efforts towards newly emerging issues. The Research Handbook on
Climate Change and Trade Law discusses some of the most important
challenges regarding conflicting interests at the intersection of
trade, climate change and investment. The insightful chapters map
from both regional and global perspectives the state of affairs in
such diverse areas as: carbon credits and taxes, sustainable
standard-setting, and trade in 'green' goods and services. This
timely book redefines the interrelationship of trade and climate
change for future scholarship and offers specific suggestions for
much-needed research in topics such as energy, carbon taxes and
credits, food, standardization, and investment. This Research
Handbook will be essential reading for researchers and advanced
students in international trade and investment law. It will also be
an invaluable resource for practitioners and policymakers in this
dynamic and highly significant area of law. Contributors include:
M. Alder, P. Arnaiz, S. Bigdeli, J. Chaisse, T. Cottier, P.
Delimatsis, A. Dimopoulos, F. Fleurke, A. Gourgourinis, A.H. Lim,
J. McMahon, S. Melnyk, J. Munro, K. Nadakavukaren Schefer, R.
Partain, T. Payosova, V. Pogoretskyy, D. Ramos, E. Reid, M. Rimmer,
L. Tamiotti, J.P. Trachtman, A. vanDuzer, E. Vranes, M. Wu, M.
Young, R. Zhang
This book explores how State capitalism affects and reshapes
international investment law. It sheds new light on the various
ways States actively influence business and commercial activity
globally by using sovereign investors such as state-owned
enterprises and sovereign wealth funds or pension funds. With a
diverse group of contributors from a broad range of countries, the
book offers a fresh and timely look into the fundamentals of State
capitalism, focusing in particular on its actors and processes, the
contextual elements that surround it, and the new political economy
that comes with it. The book is essential reading for researchers,
regulators, policy makers, and practitioners interested in the
different ways State capitalism challenges and changes
international investment law. As geopolitical considerations
increasingly affect global economic activity, delving into the
intricacies of State capitalism has never been more timely.
In recent years transnational private regulators have emerged and
multiplied. In this book, experts from various academic disciplines
offer empirically grounded case studies and theoretical insights
into the evolution and resilience of these bodies through crises.
Transnational private regulators display considerable flexibility
if compared to public institutions both in exercising their
rule-making functions and adapting and transforming in light of
endogenous or exogenous crises events calling for change. The
contributors identify such events and reflect on their impact on
transnational private rule-makers. This edited volume covers
important areas of global production and finance that are
associated with private rule-making and delves into procedural,
substantive and practical elements of private rule-making
processes. At a policy level, the book provides comparisons among
practices of private bodies in various areas, allowing for
important lessons to be drawn for all public and private
stakeholders active in, or affected by, private and public
rule-making. This title is Open Access.
In an era of increased reliance on private regulatory bodies and
globalised economic activity, standardisation is the field where
politics, technical expertise and strategic behaviour meet and
interact. International standard-setting bodies exemplify the rise
of transnational governance and the challenges that it brings about
relating to institutional choice, legitimacy, procedural and
substantive fairness or transparency. This book takes a more
empirical-based approach focusing on the mechanics of international
standard-setting. It constitutes a multidisciplinary inquiry into
the foundations of international standard-setting, an empirically
under-researched yet important area of international informal
lawmaking. Contributors expertly examine the peculiarities of
international standardisation in selected issue-areas and legal
orders and shed light on the attributes of international
standard-setters, allowing comparisons among standard-setting
bodies with a view to identifying best practices and improve our
understanding about standardisation processes.
In an era of increased reliance on private regulatory bodies and
globalised economic activity, standardisation is the field where
politics, technical expertise and strategic behaviour meet and
interact. International standard-setting bodies exemplify the rise
of transnational governance and the challenges that it brings about
relating to institutional choice, legitimacy, procedural and
substantive fairness or transparency. This book takes a more
empirical-based approach focusing on the mechanics of international
standard-setting. It constitutes a multidisciplinary inquiry into
the foundations of international standard-setting, an empirically
under-researched yet important area of international informal
lawmaking. Contributors expertly examine the peculiarities of
international standardisation in selected issue-areas and legal
orders and shed light on the attributes of international
standard-setters, allowing comparisons among standard-setting
bodies with a view to identifying best practices and improve our
understanding about standardisation processes.
For a long time, the GATT led a life of its own as a self-contained
regime. The evolution from tariff to non-tariff barriers brought
about increasing overlaps with other regulatory areas. WTO rules
increasingly interface with other areas of law and policy,
including environmental protection, agricultural policies, labour
standards, investment, human rights and regional integration.
Against this backdrop, this book examines fragmentation in
international trade regulation across a wide array of regulatory
fields. To this end, it uses a conceptually coherent theoretical
framework which is based on the effort to bring about greater
coherence among different policy goals and fields, and thus to
embed the multilateral trading system within the broader framework
of international economics, law and relations. It will appeal to
those interested in a forward-looking discussion of the most
pressing issues of the international trade agenda.
In 2005 the WTO Appellate body ruled that the United States' total
prohibition on cross border gambling services was unlawful under
the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The questions
raised by the case - whether and how a Government could block
service provision on moral grounds - went to the heart of key
controversies surrounding international economic law. How do you
reconcile a liberal system of international trade in services with
national governments' desire to protect social values through
service regulation? How much control are the WTO members willing to
transfer to the WTO? How much regulatory diversity can the
international trading system withstand? This book provides a
comprehensive analysis of the regulation of services under the
WTO's GATS Agreement. Through a thorough examination of the GATS
negotiation history, substantive provisions, judicial
interpretation, and ongoing reform process, the book presents a
clear picture of how the multilateral trading system justifies and
tolerates regulatory diversity. In this respect, the book focuses
on the core general principles of necessity and transparency, which
would allow the assessment of the consistency with the GATS of
domestic regulations in services at a horizontal, cross-sectoral
level. In addition, the book reviews with a critical eye the
ongoing GATS negotiations on the creation of rules on domestic
regulations.
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