Regional rules in the global trading system

Eds. Antoni Estevadeordal, Kati Suominen, Robert Teh. The proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past two decades has highlighted the need to look closely at the potential conflicts between regional and WTO rules or disciplines. A major obstacle to advancing understanding of RTAs ...

The international Law of investment claims

The International Law of Investment Claims considers the distinct principles governing the prosecution of a claim in investment treaty arbitration. The principles are codified as 54 'rules' of general application on the juridical foundations of investment treaty arbitration, the jurisdiction of the tribunal, the admissibility ...

The liberalisation of trade in services in MERCOSUR

This book contrasts the rhetoric of economic integration propagated from the highest political circles with the reality on the ground, taking trade in services in the Southern Common Market ( MERCOSUR ) as a case study. In 1991 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed in Asuncion, an ...

The politics of global regulation

Eds. Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods. Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions ...

Competition Law and policy in Latin America

Eds. Eleanor M. Fox, Daniel Sokol. This book offers an unparalleled analysis of the emerging law and economics of competition policy in Latin America. Nearly all Latin American countries now have competition laws and agencies to enforce them. Yet, these laws and agencies are relatively ...

Agriculture and the WTO

towards a new theory of international agriculture trade regulation

International agricultural trade regulation remains problematic despite the creation of the WTO and a specific Agreement on Agriculture in 1995. Fiona Smith challenges this orthodoxy and presents a new conceptual method by which the problem of international agricultural trade in the WTO can be understood ...

An institutional assessment of antitrust policy

the Latin America experience

CONTENTS: Introduction Latin American Antitrust Policy: A Concealed Utopia? Pt. I The Wellsprings of Latin American Competition Policy Ch. 1 Government Intervention as the Source of Monopoly in Latin America Ch. 2 The Adoption of Antitrust Policy in Latin America Ch. 3 Antitrust Policy: The ...

Das Persönlichkeitsrecht - Geistiges Eigentum im Sinne des Art. 42 CISG?

Der Schutz von Persönlichkeit und Individualität ist nach wie vor durch nationale Rechtsprechung und Gesetzgebung geprägt. Dies liegt vor allem am hybriden Charakter des Persönlichkeitsrechtsschutzes mit seiner einerseits ideellen, andererseits vermögenswerten Komponente. Der Schutz des geistigen Eigentums hingegen ist aufgrund seiner vorwiegend vermögenswerten Ausprägung und ...

State agency and the patenting of life in international Law

merchants ans missionaries in a global society

How should a state respond to competing international obligations where the patenting of life is concerned? Following the institutionalization of IP in the world trading system under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), states face differing challenges and restraints on their ...

Kaufvertragliche Durchgriffsrechte in grenzüberschreitenden Lieferketten und ihr Verhältnis zum Einheitlichen UN-Kaufrecht

Wenn bei einem grenzüberschreitenden Kaufvertrag einerseits das UN- Kaufrecht zur Anwendung kommt und andererseits das nationale Recht des die Ware erwerbenden Endabnehmers diesem die Möglichkeit gibt, im Falle nicht ordnungsgemäßer Erfüllung des Kaufvertrags im Wege des Haftungsdurchgriffs unmittelbar den Lieferanten des Importeurs in Anspruch zu ...

The international trade policy for technology transfers

legal and economic dilemmas on multilateralism versus bilateralism

The importance of international technology transfer for economic development can hardly be overstated. But the wide range of interests among developed and developing countries has long been the cause of enormous political obstacles to the conclusion of efficient international agreements dealing with technology transfers. This ...

International jurisdiction and commercial litigation

uniform rules for contract disputes

This exploration of the basic approaches to international jurisdiction in commercial contractual disputes contains a comprehensive analysis of jurisdictional regimes of major continental European countries, England, the United States and the Brussels Regulation 44/2001. It includes an exhaustive comparative study of each rule establishing ...

Soberanía, la OMC y los fundamentos cambiantes del Derecho internacional

El contenido de este libro y su difusión editorial es especialmente pertinente en el momento actual debido a los importantes y nuevos retos, problemas y dificultades que el mundo de hoy debe afrontar. Algunas de las particularidades de la crisis actual son tratadas en el ...

Trade policy flexibility and enforcement in the WTO

a Law and economics analysis

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign countries. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are designed to deal with contractual gaps, which are the inevitable consequence of this contractual incompleteness. Trade policy flexibility mechanisms are backed up by enforcement instruments which allow for ...

El Reglamento "Roma I" sobre la ley aplicable a los contratos internacionales y su aplicación por los tribunales españoles

El Reglamento 593/2008 de 17 junio 2008 sobre la ley aplicable a las obligaciones contractuales (Reglamento Roma I) ha venido a sustituir al Convenio de Roma de 19 junio 1980 sobre la ley aplicable a las obligaciones contractuales. Este Convenio ha constituido el referente ...

Teorías del comercio internacional

El libro resume magistralmente las ideas contemporáneas sobre comercio internacional, agrupadas en torno a los dos enfoques que dominan en ese campo: la ventaja comparativa y la ventaja absoluta.

Ideas, institutions, and trade

the WTO and the curious role of EU farm policy in trade liberalization

Agriculture has a small, and declining, importance in employment and income generation within the EU, but a political importance well beyond its economic impact. The EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has often been the source of conflict between the EU and its trade partners ...

Investing in protection

the politics of preferential trade agreements between North and Sourth

Since the early 1990s the world has seen an explosion of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between North and South. Mark Manger argues that current North-South PTAs are not primarily about liberalizing exports as is usually assumed. Rather, they are driven by the needs of foreign ...

Securities markets and corporate governance

a China experience

This book explores the rationalities and functions of securities markets and takeover activities. Focusing on the Chinese experience of utilizing the securities market as an effective mechanism of corporate control, this volume analyses the future development of China's financial market in the era of ...

Derecho de la competencia europeo y español. Volumen X

En el presente volumen se han reunido excelentes artículos que abordan tanto aspectos transversales del Derecho de la Competencia como cuestiones más específicas pero de igual actualidad e interés para aquellas personas interesadas en el Derecho de la Competencia español y comunitario.