Introduction -- PART I: HOW TO ASSESS COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT: CONCEPTS AND METHODS -- The Concept of Compliance -- The TRIPS Agreement: Developing Global Rules for Intellectual Property Protection -- A Framework for Assessing Compliance with the TRIPS Agreement -- PART II: ASSESSING COMPLIANCE WITH THE TRIPS AGREEMENT IN CHINA -- Implementing the TRIPS Agreement in China -- Assessi…
Regulating free trade from the WTO perspective -- Subsidies in international trade from the WTO perspective -- Discussing agriculture subsidies from the WTO perspective -- Subsidies for dumping -- Unfolding the intricacies of trade subsidies through the WTO rules of origins -- The impact of trade subsidies on the environment: a problem for the WTO trading system -- Remedies: the procedural meas…
1 Introduction: Trade policies in the post-TPP era (Julien Chaisse, Henry Gao, Chang fa Lo) -- Part 1 The Impact of TPP on International Economic Law Rule-Making -- 2 The Coherent Fragmentation of International Economic Law: Lessons from the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (Colin B. Picker) -- 3 On Creating Negotiation Rounds Similar to Multilateral Regimes for the TPP for its Furthe…
Introduction and Research Questions -- General Background -- Competition Law Enforcement -- Transparency -- Regulatory Enforcement.This book examines the issue of capacity withdrawals in the electricity wholesale market. Electricity generators can exercise market power in the wholesale market either by withdrawing generation capacity, or by pricing above competitive levels in order to achieve a…
Introduction -- Perspectives from the International law of responsibility on the joint responsibility regime of the EU and its member states -- International responsibility in mixed agreements: the case of the WTO Agreement -- The responsibility of the Union Polity in the WTO in light of the constitutional framework of principles -- A model for participation of the Union Polity in the DSP and t…
Interdisciplinary introduction to money and currencies -- Monetary sovereignty and history of international monetary law -- Fundamental legal problems of international monetary relations -- The international monetary constitution: the IMF articles of agreement - institutional design and decision-making -- The international monetary constitution: the IMF articles of agreement - substantive legal…
Part I International Protection of Consumers: trends and challenges: Dan Wei, Consumer Protection in the Global Context: the Present Status and Some New Trends -- Ana Candida Muniz and Hector Santana, The UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection: review and next -- Gail Pearson, The UNGCP Guidelines – Some Comments -- Fabiana D´Andrea Ramos and Vitor Hugo do Amaral Ferreira, Common Law and Inte…
Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Tax Discrimination and Global Trade in Services -- Part II: Non-Discrimination Obligations in Tax and Trade Agreements -- Chapter 2: Setting the Stage: Non-Discrimination Obligations in Trade and Tax Agreements -- Chapter 3: Non-Discrimination Obligations in Free Trade Agreements and Bilateral Tax Treaties in Regional Trade Blocks -- Chapter 4: Non-Discriminat…
Introduction -- On the conventional nature of money -- The debate about the ethics of money pursuit -- Building stones for a new monetary world order -- Some further institutional and other practical aspects of the organization of the new monetary world order -- Concluding reflections.This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western…
Part I Setting the Scene: Peter-Tobias Stoll, Mega Regionals: Challenges, Opportunities and Research Questions -- Part II Strategic and Structural Issues: Edouard Bourcieu, The Strategic Dimension of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Democratic Legitimacy of the CETA and TTIP Agreements? -- Joost Pauwelyn, Not As Preferential As You May Think: How Me…