European Yearbook of International Economic Law : European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2016

Volume 7 of the EYIEL focusses on critical perspectives of international economic law. Recent protests against free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) remind us that international economic law has always been a politically and legally contested field. This volume collects critical contributions on trade, investment, financial and other subfields of international economic law from scholars who have shaped this debate for many years. The critical contributions to this volume are challenged and sometimes rejected by commentators who have been invited to be zcritical with the criticsy. The result is a unique collection of critical essays accompanied by alternative and competing views on some of the most fundamental topics of international economic law. In its section on regional developments, EYIEL 7 addresses recent megaregional and plurilateral trade and investment agreements and negotiations. Short insights on various aspects of the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) and its sister TTIP are complemented with comments on other developments, including the African Tripartite FTA und the negotiations on a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Further sections address recent WTO and investment case law as well as recent developments concerning the IMF, UNCTAD and the WCO. The volume closes with reviews of recent books in international economic law.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Critical Theory and Practice in International Economic Law and the New Global Governance....Pages 3-22 Global Constitutionalism and International Economic Law: The Case of International Investment Law....Pages 23-43 From Fragmentation to Constitutionalisation of International Economic Law? Comments on Schneiderman’s ‘Constitutionalism’....Pages 45-66 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....Pages 67-102 Agricultural Trade: How Bad Is the WTO for Development?....Pages 103-117 From GATS to TiSA: Pushing the Trade in Services Regime Beyond the Limits....Pages 119-151 Trade in Services and Regulatory Flexibility: 20 Years of GATS, 20 Years of Critique....Pages 153-173 The Current System of Trade and Intellectual Property Rights....Pages 175-197 The Current System of Intellectual Property Rights Aims to Promote Trade and Not Innovation....Pages 199-208 International Investment Law as Development Law: The Obsolescence of a Fraudulent System....Pages 209-231 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....Pages 233-271 Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Conflict, Convergence, and Future Directions....Pages 273-308 In Defense of International Investment Law....Pages 309-341 Shifting Sands: Interrogating the Problematic Relationship Between International Public Finance and International Financial Regulation....Pages 343-375 Problematic Relationships: Why International Economic Law Is Sometimes More Complicated Than It Appears....Pages 377-389 Regulating Multinational Enterprises....Pages 391-421 Horizontal Effect of Human Rights in the Era of Transnational Constellations: On the Accountability of Private Actors for Human Rights Violations....Pages 423-460 Human Rights and International Economic Law....Pages 461-484 International Economic Law and Human Rights: Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?....Pages 485-492 Front Matter....Pages 493-493 The United States’ Path to Concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Will TPA + TAA = TPP?....Pages 495-505 Front Matter....Pages 493-493 TPP, Regulatory Coherence and China’s Free Trade Strategy from A to Z....Pages 507-514 The Flow-On Effect: How the TPP Will Re-Shape Trade Relations in East Asia....Pages 515-525 Investment Protection in TTIP: Three Feasible Proposals....Pages 527-541 Six Degrees of Integration: How Closely Will the TTIP Integrate the Transatlantic Market?....Pages 543-555 TTIP and Swiss Democracy....Pages 557-570 Locating African Countries within Mega-Regionals....Pages 571-588 The Tripartite Free Trade Area: A Step Closer to the African Economic Community?....Pages 589-613 Developing and Least-Developed Countries and Mega-Regional Trade and Investment Agreements....Pages 615-626 The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA): Assessing the State of Play and Potential Pitfalls....Pages 627-648 Front Matter....Pages 649-649 Overview of WTO Jurisprudence in 2014....Pages 651-702 Recent Developments in International Investment Law....Pages 703-731 Recent Developments in IMF Policies and Activities....Pages 733-768 The Road Towards Reform of the International Investment Agreement Regime: A Perspective from UNCTAD....Pages 769-786 Recent Developments in the World Customs Organization....Pages 787-799 Front Matter....Pages 801-801 Valentina Vadi, Bruno de Witte (Eds.), Culture and International Economic Law....Pages 803-809 Thomas Cottier, Rosa M. Lastra, Christian Tietje, Lucía Satragno (Eds.), The Rule of Law in Monetary Affairs: World Trade Forum....Pages 811-817 Karl Sauvant and Federico Ortino, Improving the International Investment Law and Policy Regime: Options for the Future....Pages 819-822 Diane Desierto, Public Policy in International Economic Law: The ICESCR in Trade, Finance, and Investment....Pages 823-830 Juliane Ahner, Investor-Staat-Schiedsverfahren Nach Europäischem Unionsrecht: Zulässigkeit und Ausgestaltung in Investitionsabkommen der Europäischen Union....Pages 831-834 Aikaterini Titi, The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law....Pages 835-838 Volume 7 of the EYIEL focusses on critical perspectives of international economic law. Recent protests against free trade agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) remind us that international economic law has always been a politically and legally contested field. This volume collects critical contributions on trade, investment, financial and other subfields of international economic law from scholars who have shaped this debate for many years. The critical contributions to this volume are challenged and sometimes rejected by commentators who have been invited to be ĺlcritical with the criticsĺl. The result is a unique collection of critical essays accompanied by alternative and competing views on some of the most fundamental topics of international economic law. In its section on regional developments, EYIEL 7 addresses recent megaregional and plurilateral trade and investment agreements and negotiations. Short insights on various aspects of the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) and its sister TTIP are complemented with comments on other developments, including the African Tripartite FTA und the negotiations on a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Further sections address recent WTO and investment case law as well as recent developments concerning the IMF, UNCTAD and the WCO. The volume closes with reviews of recent books in international economic law