Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-4

PART I - International economic law: conceptions of convergence and divergence

pp 5-6

1 - The end of the globalization debate: continued

pp 7-21

2 - Global economic institutions and the autonomy of development policy: a pluralist approach

pp 22-43

3 - Fragmentation, openness and hegemony: adjudication and the WTO

pp 44-70

PART II - WTO treaty interpretation: implications and consequences

pp 71-72

4 - Demanding perfection: private food standards and the SPS Agreement

pp 73-98

5 - Eroding national autonomy from the TRIPS Agreement

pp 99-115

6 - The WTO and RTAs: a ‘bottom-up’ interpretation of RTAs' autonomy over WTO law

pp 116-140

7 - ‘Gambling’ with sovereignty: complying with international obligations or upholding national autonomy

pp 141-166

PART III - Responding to international economic law commitments

pp 167-168

8 - Safety standards and indigenous products: what role for traditional knowledge?

pp 169-192

9 - The GATS and temporary migration policy

pp 193-215

10 - A different approach to the external trade requirement of GATT Article XXIV: assessing ‘other regulations of commerce’ in the context of EU enlargement and its heightened regulatory standards

pp 216-240

PART IV - Transformations in international economic law

pp 241-242

11 - Foreign investors vs sovereign states: towards a global framework, BIT by BIT

pp 243-268

12 - How ‘trade in services’ transforms the regulation of temporary migration for remittances in poor countries

pp 269-294

13 - Reconceptualising international investment law: bringing the public interest into private business

pp 295-319

Index

pp 320-332