Looks at scientific developments in Europe during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries.

Product Description: African regional trade integration has grown exponentially in the last decade. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal framework within which it is being pursued. It will fill a huge knowledge gap and serve as an invaluable teaching and research tool for policy makers in the public and private sectors, teachers, researchers and students of African trade and beyond...read more

Product Description: Anyone involved in trade law knows the time-consuming nature of obtaining primary source material and consulting each of the main trade laws. Now in its fourth edition, Basic Documents in International Trade Law solves this problem by assembling, in a single, easy-to-use resource, a very comprehensive collection of the most important and frequently used documents on the law of international trade...read more

Product Description: Behind the Multilateral Trading System offers a novel perspective from which to view and understand the WTO regime and its participants. The central feature of that new perspective is the concept of legal indigenization. This term generally refers to the process or ideology in which domestic authorities make and implement international or domestic rules in a way appealing to their native features (especially legal traditions), as responses to globalization led by a defective global legal system...read more

Product Description: The stalling of the Doha Development Round trade negotiations has resulted in bilateral and regional free trade agreements (BRTAs) becoming an important alternative. These agreements have proliferated in recent years, and now all of the major trading countries are engaging in serious bilateral trade negotiations with multiple trading partners...read more

Product Description: Do business people consider the rules of commercial law when they negotiate a business deal, or are the practicalities of whatever transaction they are about to agree upon their sole consideration? Or does the law fade into the background to such an extent that it becomes almost irrelevant? If so, what is the role of law in commerce and, therefore, what are the boundaries of commercial law? These questions are examined in this important book, written for: teachers and researchers of commercial law, undergraduate and postgraduate students of commercial law, legal practitioners, business professionals, public bodies for the regulation of trade and commerce, as well as libraries of reference...read more

Product Description: 'This monograph is the first to bring together and critically assess the extensive scholarship and practice on the burning topic of whether domestic climate change legislation can also be imposed on imports. No explicit WTO ruling exists on the matter...read more

This text presents summaries and extracts from, and analysis of, the main cases and other materials on international sale contracts. The book concentrates especially on CIF (costs, insurance, freight) and FOB (free on board) contracts, and variations thereon.

Product Description: The Challenge of Safeguards in the WTO provides a comprehensive overview of the safeguard mechanism in the multilateral trading system. It explains at length its historical and conceptual foundations and elaborates on the various requirements for the imposition of safeguards and the conduct of safeguard investigations...read more

Product Description: The Dispute Settlement Reports of the World Trade Organization (WTO) include Panel and Appellate Body reports, as well as arbitration awards, in disputes concerning the rights and obligations of WTO Members under the provisions of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization...read more

Product Description: Trade remedies, namely anti-dumping, countervailing measures and safeguards, are one of the most controversial issues in today's global trading environment. When used, such measures effectively close the markets of the importing countries to competition from outside for a certain period of time...read more

Product Description: 'As business spreads across the world, but jurisdictions remain essentially national, means must be found whereby business may effectively regulate itself and be regulated for public benefit. This important book addresses these issues, at theoretical and practical levels, explaining important sectoral examples and with deeper analysis...read more

This collection of specialist essays discusses 40 issues at the cutting edge of international trade law. Leading academics and practitioners examine the major issues in international trade law, including e-commerce, insolvency and intellectual property.