Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System

Edited by Lorand Bartels and Federico Ortino

in OUP Catalogue from Oxford University Press

Abstract: The proliferation of regional trade agreements, including both free trade agreements and customs unions, over the past decade has provoked many new legal issues in WTO law, public international law, and an emerging law of regional trade agreements. The various Parts of this book chart this development from a number of perspectives. Part 1 introduces the economic and political underpinnings of regional trade agreements, their constitutional functions, and their role as a locus for integrating trade and human rights. Part 2 examines the WTO rules governing regional trade agreements, focusing on a number of areas in which regional trade agreements prove problematic, such as trade remedies, regulatory standards and rules of origin. Part 3 investigates areas in which regional trade agreements go beyond WTO rules, in areas such as intellectual property, investment, competition, services, sustainable development and mutual recognition, while Part 4 is devoted to the dispute settlement mechanisms of regional trade agreements, and includes illuminating case studies. Part 5 explores the interrelationship between regional trade agreements and the WTO system from the perspective of public international law, involving questions with significance beyond the trade community. Contributors to this volume - Chad Damro Thomas Cottier and Marina Foltea Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann James Mathis Angela Gobbi Estrella and Gary Horlick Jose Antonio Rivas Markus Krajewski Audley Sheppard Brian Mercurio Melaku Desta Gareth Davies Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger Bill Davey Armand de Mestral Ignacio Garcia Bercero Andreas Ziegler Yan Luo Piet Eeckhout Kyung Kwak and Gabrielle Marceau Locknie Hsu Isabelle Van Damme

Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780199207008
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