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Processes and Production Methods (PPMs) in WTO Law
An analysis of the conditions under which trade-restrictive measures linked to PPMs are, and should be, legal in WTO law.
Public Services and International Trade Liberalization
Does public service liberalization pose a threat to gender and human rights? Traditionally considered essential services provided by a state to its citizens, public services are often viewed as public goods which embody social values. Subjecting them to market ideology thus raises concerns that the intrinsic social nature of these services will be negated. Moreover, as those most likely to be reliant on public services, public service liberalization may also further marginalize women. Nevertheless, states continue to increasingly liberalize public services. Barnali Choudhury explores the implications of public service liberalization. Using primarily a legal approach, but drawing from case studies, empirical research and gender theories, she examines whether liberalization under the General Agreement on Trade in Services and other liberalization vehicles such as preferential trade and investment agreements compromise human rights and gender objectives.
The International Legal Régime for the Protection of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer
The first edition of Professor Yoshida’s monograph, The International Legal Régime for the Protection of the Stratosphere Ozone Layer, provided a renowned and comprehensive contemporary study of the international ozone régime. In the second revised edition, the author analyses important developments in the ozone treaty régime.
The Prudential Carve-Out for Financial Services
Studies the GATS prudential carve-out as well as prudential carve-outs in preferential trade agreements.
Public Participation and Legitimacy in the WTO
Yves Bonzon describes the limits and potential of further formalizing public participation in WTO decision-making.
General Interests of Host States in International Investment Law
Analyses bilateral treaties and regional agreements on foreign investments, focussing particularly on measures taken in the context of economic crises.
International Organizations in WTO Dispute Settlement
This in-depth analysis of the role of international organisations in WTO dispute settlement examines the level of institutional sensitivity of the WTO adjudicator to organisations including the IMF, WIPO, WCO and WHO. It will appeal to international law scholars, civil servants and law practitioners.
The Law and Politics of WTO Waivers
Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage in significant law-making. She systemises the GATT and WTO waiver practice and suggests a typology of waivers as individual exception, general exception and rule-making instruments. She also presents the procedural and substantive legal requirements for the granting of waivers, deals with questions of judicial review and interpretation of waiver decisions, and clarifies the waiver's potential and limits for addressing the need for flexibility and adaptability in public international law and WTO law in particular. By connecting the analysis of waiver competence and waiver practice to the general stability/flexibility challenge in public international law, the book sheds new light on the WTO, international institutions and international law.
WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion, Zaker Ahmad puts a spotlight on the crucial importance of dismantling market barriers and offering incentives to improve clean technology access and diffusion across borders. To that end, the author argues for a synergistic co-development of the international trade and climate legal regimes. Two case studies – one on carbon pricing, another on official export credit support – place the theoretical arguments in a practical trade policy setting. The emerging doctrine and principle of Common Concern of Humankind serves as the key theoretical and structural foundation of the work. A useful read for anyone interested in an effective role of trade law and policy to facilitate climate action.
The Law, Economics and Politics of International Standardisation
This book examines the foundations of international standard-setting from a multidisciplinary perspective.
