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Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisationby Rorden Wilkinson
Routledge 2000; US$ 160.00This book explores the significance of the establishment of the World Trade Organisation. It uncovers a series of discriminatory practices towards developing countries that are embedded in the WTO's legal framework. more...
The Political Economy of International Trade Lawby Daniel L. M. Kennedy; James D. Southwick
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 70.00Experts from law, economics, and political science provide in-depth analysis of international trade issues. Contributors consider WTO legal institutions as functioning in unexpected ways due to the political and economic conditions of their international environment. This is an essential volume for professionals and academics involved with international trade policy. more...
Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyondby Brian Subirana; Malcolm Bain
Springer 2005; US$ 119.00Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming. It offers a general outline of the potential legal difficulties that could arise in relation to them, focusing on the programming of negotiation and contracting processes in a privacy, consumer and commercial context. more...
The Regulation of International Tradeby Michael Trebilcock; Robert Howse
Routledge 1999; US$ 80.00Introduces the rules and institutions that govern international trade. This new edition has been fully up-dated to take account of the most recent developments. more...
Law in the Service of Human Dignityby Steve Charnovitz; Debra P. Steger; Peter Van den Bossche
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 120.00Assembled in celebration of Justice Florentino Feliciano, this volume consists of essays from notable jurists, academics, and practitioners from around the world who offer new insights regarding the jurisprudence of world trade law, the changing landscape of investment arbitration, and other vital topics in international adjudication. more...
Business Law in the Global Marketplaceby Peter A. Nayler
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 54.95The study of Law forms a component of many undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Its inclusion does not aim to equip business practitioners with skill and expertise to render professional legal advice unnecessary, but more to provide a legal framework of reference in which both strategic and more immediate business issues can be placed. Equipping managers with a basic understanding of how law impacts upon business activity can help them avoid legal pitfalls in the first place or at least identify potential problems at an early stage, to avoid inconvenience and cost. International business can present problems that are not present in a purely domestic transaction. Any law component in a management program should embrace it and by doing... more...
Domestic Structures and International Tradeby Candido Garcia Molyneux
Hart 2001; US$ 165.60This work places international trade law within an economic, political and sociological context, contending that globalization is characterized by both homogeneity and diversity. However, while implying changes within contracting parties, globalization only results in a 'thin' homogeneity. more...
Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralismby Oren Perez
Hart 2004; US$ 124.80The tension between trade liberalization and environmental protection has received much attention since the establishment of the WTO. It has triggered a wide-ranging debate and played a central role in the discourse of the anti-globalization movement. This book offers a critique of the debate. more...
Environment, Human Rights and International Tradeby Francesco Francioni
Hart 2001; US$ 151.20After the completion of the Uruguay Round and the adoption of the 1994 agreement establishing the WTO,the place of international trade in the context of the international legal order has radically changed. International trade law has become a subject of wide-spread interest, cutting across traditional boundaries, and engaging diverse political and legal concerns. One consquence of this development is increasing concern with the legitimacy of the WTO process, which in turn has led to the WTO becoming the focus of rancorous protest by, among others, environmental NGOs, trade unions, and human rights activists. This collection of essays by leading scholars and lawyers engaged in the policy-making process, addresses the underlying tensions and... more...
International Trade and Economic Law and the European Unionby Sara Dillon
Hart 2002; US$ 84.00This timely book explores the developing nature of international trade law,with particular emphasis on World Trade Organization law and its effects within the European Union. In the aftermath of the Seattle upheaval, vital questions are being raised as to the future course of global economic law; its overall legitimacy, implications for democracy, for national social and environmental policies, and for the well being of the world?s people. This highly technical subject is rigorously analysed, yet the main legal developments and the major trade disputes are discussed in an accessible narrative style. The first section covers the common historical roots of the GATT and the EC, systems of integration that were part of an idealistic post-war heritage.... more...