JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Browsing by Subject "WTO"
Now showing items 1-15 of 15
Title:Beyond market access? : the anatomy of ASEAN’s preferential trade agreements
Author(s):KLEIMANN, DavidDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This study seeks to enhance the understanding of ASEAN’s external preferential trade agreements (PTA) in context of the recent growth of economic regionalism in East Asia. First, the paper compares the content of ASEAN’s ...
Title:Multilevel Governance of Interdependent Public Goods: Theories, rules and institutions for the central policy challenge in the 21st Century
Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich; LAMY, Pascal; BORRELL, José; KAUL, Inge; KRATOCHWIL, Friedrich; WOUTERS, Jan; RAMOPOULOS, Thomas; ABBOTT, Frederick M.; PITARAKI, Anna; ESTY, Daniel; MOFFA, Anthony; HARTMANN, Moritz; PENCA, Jerneja; COTTIER, ThomasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This publication includes papers of an interdisciplinary conference in 2011 analysing multilevel governance problems of the international trading, environmental, development and rule-of-law systems as interdependent ...
Title:International Economic Law in the 21st Century: Need for stronger ‘democratic ownership’ and cosmopolitan reforms
Author(s):PETERSMANN, Ernst-UlrichDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This article, accepted for publication in the 2012 Polish Yearbook of International Law, argues that – in order to make international economic law (IEL) a more effective instrument for protecting human rights and other ...
Title:Free Trade Agreements and WTO Law: A Perspective on the Trade in Services
Author(s):WANG, HengDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:China’s free trade agreements in services are developing at a fast pace. This paper examines the major differences between these agreements and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and their relationship with ...
Title:What Price for the Community Enforcement of WTO Law?
Author(s):ARCURI, Alessandra; POLI, SaraDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) legal framework, when a violation is deemed to occur,
Members have recourse to a quasi-automatic dispute settlement system. If the breach persists after the
WTO Dispute Settlement ...
Title:Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements as a Challenge to the Multilateral Trading System
Author(s):HERRMANN, Christoph W.Date:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Whether bilateral or regional trade agreements are rather friends or rivals of the
multilateral trading system is an evergreen question of international economic law.
Recent times clearly show an ever faster increase of ...
Title:Conflict of Laws as Constitutional Form: Reflections on International Trade Law and the Biotech Panel Report
Author(s):JOERGES, ChristianDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:RECON Online Working PaperAbstract:Hardly anywhere is the trend towards a perfection of transnational governance arrangements and their 'legalization' more visible than in international trade. Governance arrangements established through and alongside WTO ...
Title:On ‘Middle Ground’. The European Community and Public International Law
Author(s):SCHUTZE, RobertDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Does the Community legal order constitute a closed ‘self-contained regime’ or will it be an ‘open system’? While founded on the basis of an international treaty, the European Community still had to determine – not unlike ...
Title:The US Trade Deficit, the Decline of the WTO and the Rise of Regionalism
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper argues that the growing US trade deficit has caused the decline of the
WTO and the rise of regional trade agreements. A country in de.cit prefers to retain
market power against countries with a large surplus. ...
Title:Free Trade with Hazardous Products? The Emergence of Transnational Governance with Eroding State Government
Author(s):JOERGES, ChristianDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The historical evolution of free trade has been accompanied by a plethora of debates, concerning both its positive effects and social costs. During the last decade, the subject of these disputes has markedly changed. The ...
Title:Consumer Citizenship in Postnational Constellations?
Author(s):EVERSON, Michelle; JOERGES, ChristianDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:It is perhaps a truism to note that ‘the consumer’ is but a role that is played by human subjects. This insight leaves us, as lawyers, with one vital question: how can or does the legal system meaningfully rationalise its ...