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Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism
Hart Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 102.60The 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...
International Trade and Economic Law and the European Union
Hart Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 68.40This 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,... more...
Regional and Global Regulation of International Trade
Hart Publishing Limited 2002; US$ 120.60The processes of legal and economic integration at a regional and global scale have created powerful legal and economic dilemmas. They challenge the paradigms of constitutionalism,including the State?s monopoly of constitutionalism, the autonomy of national political communities and the traditional forms of participation and representation. The phenomena... more...
Basic Legal Instruments for the Liberalisation of Trade
Hart Publishing Limited 2004; US$ 156.60The interpretation and application of the rules of international and regional trade is becoming an increasingly specialised field. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the core legal concepts characterising the two most prominent and successful efforts in the regulation of international trade to date. more...
The Political Economy of Trade in Services Agreements
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 61.95Serving Whose Interests? explores the political economy of trade in services agreements from a critical legal perspective. The controversy surrounding the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and its variants at the regional and bilateral levels can, it is argued, be seen as a clash between two paradigms. For most of the twentieth century,... more...
Contractual Certainty in International Trade
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 45.00Global business interacts efficiently despite the heterogeneity of social, economic and legal cultures which, according to widespread assumptions, cause insecurities and uncertainties. Breaches of contracts may occur more frequently and business relationships may be terminated more often in international than in domestic trade. But most business people... more...
Crisis, Complexity and Conflict
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 114.95Many economic issues that touch the life of millions of people are more complex than most people thought. From the U.S financial crisis to regional cooperation, from the oil price shock to climate change, policy conflicts abound. The book distills some of these conflicts and argues that understanding the nature and intensity of trade-offs is a key... more...
The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services
BRILL 2007; US$ 382.00Examines how the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) governs international trade in services and its growing impact on the regulatory practice of World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states. This book discusses the major issues confronting WTO member states by analysing the GATS and related international trade issues. more...
Reconciling Environment and Trade
BRILL 2008; US$ 222.00Focuses on five cases, that reflect five basic issues in the clash between trade and the environment: public health, air pollution/ozone depletion, food safety, destruction of endangered species, and biosafety. This work is suitable for those involved in international trade or environmental activism. more...
WTO - Trade in Services
BRILL 2008; US$ 189.00With the establishment of the WTO, trade in services became part of the world trade order. This volume covers the core agreement, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) with annexes. more...









