Sara Dillon

International Trade and Economic Law and the European Union

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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. The book goes on to demonstrate the idiosyncratic development of GATT law, leading to the launch of the WTO in 1995 and the controversial Uruguay Round Agreements which represented the beginning of an enormous proliferation of causes of action and a greatly enhanced legalism for the global trading system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781841131139
• ISBN-10: 184113113X
• Artikelnr.: 24977755

Autorenporträt

Sara Dillon is a Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School,Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I GLOBAL CONTEXT 1 Introduction: The Problem of Europe in a Globalised
World 2 Early GATT PART II THE EFFECTS OF THE URUGUAY ROUND 3 Intellectual
Property Rights and Trade: Creating the TRIPS Agreement 4 "Free Trade in
Investments" 5 "Trade and the Environment": International trade rules and
national regulation of the environment 6 The trouble with Trade in
Agriculture 7 Safeguards: Escape clauses and the power of self-protection 8
Liberalising the Textile trade: The only Uuruguay Round Agreement of clear
benefit to the Developing World 9 The Power of the General Agreement on
Trade in Services (GATS) 10 National measures against dumping and subsidies
PART III EXTERNAL TRADE RELATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 11 European
External Trade Relations: Uniformity Without 12 The European Court of
Justice meets GATT Law: The Power of First Impressions