Routledge Research in International Economic Law
About the Book Series
The growing integration of the world economy and resulting increases in cross-border economic exchanges has been accompanied by the rapid growth of law and regulation governing these interactions. This series presents cutting-edge research in international economic law, offering fresh perspectives on what is a fast developing field.
The series surveys the key areas of international economic law: international trade law; international investment law; international financial regulation and monetary law; and related aspects of intellectual property law. Linkages with other international legal regimes are explored such as environmental law, human rights, and public health, highlighting areas where tensions may occur between economic liberalisation, sovereignty and other concerns. Books will investigate the theory, policy and practice of international economic law from a broad range of approaches allowing for innovative and scholarly assessments of the international economic legal order.
Foreign Investment, Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Striking a Balance for Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Shawkat Alam, Abdullah Al Faruque
November 22, 2024
This book examines the integration of human rights and environmental standards within international investment agreements (IIAs). It explores the intricate relationship between foreign direct investment and sustainable development, emphasizing the necessity for reform in investment treaties to ...
International Trade Regulation: Evolving Dynamics and Shifting Foundations
1st Edition
By Zhiqiong June Wang, Jianfu Chen
October 07, 2024
The international trade regulatory system is a dynamic system that has been evolving throughout its history. Tension and conflict are part of the system. While calls for the abolition of the principal trade regulation authority, the WTO, have failed to understand this nature of the system, ...
Reform and Regulation of Economic Institutions in Afghanistan: Formal and Informal Credit Systems
1st Edition
By Haroun Rahimi
May 27, 2024
Taliban's return to power in August of 2021 caused everyone to ask why the two decades of institution building in Afghanistan failed. This book investigates the root causes of failed reforms in an important area of reform: trade and credit institutions. It explains why the efforts to reform and ...
The Americanisation of the World Trade Order
1st Edition
By Asif H Qureshi
January 29, 2024
This book provides insights into the world trading order that is informed by power—in particular, the unidirectional norm imparting impact of US foreign trade law and practice on its trading partners and non-State actors. In this context, the recent tensions between the US and China have brought to...
Trade, Migration and Law: Free Movement of Persons in the Southern African Development Community
1st Edition
By Victor T. Amadi
January 29, 2024
This book explores how law and policy makers within the Southern African Development Community regional structure might reform the legal and regulatory frameworks to best capitalise the benefits of the movement of people, drawing lessons from other experienced jurisdictions by critically engaging ...
The Freest Market in the World: The Constitutional Logic of Economic Liberty in China’s Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Gonzalo Villalta Puig, Eric Ip
February 22, 2023
On the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, this book presents the first monographic study of the Hong Kong Basic Law as an economic document. The Basic Law codifies what Gonzalo Villalta Puig and Eric C Ip call free...
International Investment Protection within Europe: The EU’s Assertion of Control
1st Edition
By Julien Berger
January 09, 2023
The steadily rising number of investor-State arbitration proceedings within the EU has triggered an extensive backlash and an increased questioning of the international investment law regime by different Member States as well as the EU Commission. This has resulted in the EU’s assertion of control ...
The Legality of Economic Activities in Occupied Territories: International, EU Law and Business and Human Rights Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Antoine Duval, Eva Kassoti
December 19, 2022
This edited volume explores the question of the lawfulness under international law of economic activities in occupied territories from the perspectives of international law, EU law, and business and human rights. Providing a multi-level overview of relevant practices, policies and cases, the book ...
Cost and EU Public Procurement Law: Life-Cycle Costing for Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Andhov, Roberto Caranta, Anja Wiesbrock
December 13, 2021
Public institutions, companies and governments in the EU and around the worldare increasingly engaging in sustainable public procurement – a broad conceptthat must consider the three pillars of economic equality, social welfare and publichealth and environmental responsibility when designing public...
International Investment Law and Gender Equality: Stabilization Clauses and Foreign Investment
1st Edition
By Sangwani Patrick Ng’ambi, Kangwa-Musole George Chisanga
December 13, 2021
This book analyses the impact that stabilization clauses have on the development of human rights and gender laws in resource rich nations.Given the fact that stabilization clauses freeze the law for as long as the contract subsists there has been debate on the negative impact stabilization clauses ...
Preferential Trade Agreements and International Law
1st Edition
By Graeme Baber
December 13, 2021
The multilateral trade agreements in the Annexes to the Agreement Establishingthe World Trade Organization provide a comprehensive structure for internationaltrade. Why would trading partners in different countries feel the need togo outside this framework in order to set up preferential trade ...
Promoting and Managing International Investment: Towards an Integrated Policy Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By J Anthony VanDuzer, Patrick Leblond
December 13, 2021
This book provides an overview of international investment policy and policy-making, drawing upon perspectives from law, economics, international business, and political science. International investment is a complex phenomenon with significant effects worldwide. Developing effective policies and ...