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There has been relatively little written applying the insights of legal realism to international law, particularly international economic law. Professor Gregory Shaffer has admirably filled his gap in his excellent book, Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation. In my...
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Trade-restrictiveness is a familiar concept across various provisions and agreements of the World Trade Organization … currently in place around the world, some under challenge in the WTO. A careful analysis of the existing caselaw and treaty text …
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economic integration is being created within a few specific regions of the world: Europe, North America and East Asia. … growth of networks of interdependence within multinational regions of the world. The recent decades arecharacterized by the … fact that the world trade grew faster than world output, which implies that an increasing share of world GDP crosses …
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Under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), international trade has increased significantly — and tariffs have declined equally dramatically — over the past 70 years (see Figures 1 and 2). It comes as no surprise that this growth in trade has been accompanied by...
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This paper will discuss about the proliferation of regional trade arrangements (RTAs). It reveals that RTAs bring many benefit to the member of the agreements. However the proliferation of RTAs has posed many threat to the global trading system. Those problems include: trade diversion,...
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were integrated into the modern world economic system and subjected to the IEL that sustains it. It then looks at Asia … respect to IEL and highlights issues that may prompt future research. These issues are possibly caused by Asia's historical … in Asia, which has largely been developed through regional economic integration. The chapter then turns to several recent …
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the world. Global financial safety nets (GFSNs) are one important area for monetary cooperation. This paper reviews the …
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The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in …
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The paper advances the paradoxical thesis that international investment law is developing towards a multilateral system of investment protection on the basis of bilateral treaties. Despite the infinite fragmentation of substantive investment law, coupled with arbitration as a decentralized...
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With an increasing number of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) covering trade in services, we explore the impact of PTAs on services trade. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper in this literature that endogenizes the impact of services preferentialism in estimating the trade...
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