EYIEL Monographs - Studies in European and International Economic Law

This is an open access book. Sustainable development is so important that humanity must do its utmost to achieve these goals for the well-being of the present and future generations. WTO members have started to reform WTO rules since the WTO’s …

Is sustainable development merely a convenient catchphrase or does it have a real bearing on international law? And is corporate social responsibility an internationally legally void concept, subject to unbridled corporate appropriation and …

How much legal discretion do arbitrators truly have in investment treaty arbitration? Iura novit curia – literally "the judge knows the law" – is a well-established procedural principle across various legal systems, empowering and/or requiring …

This book explores how international investment law has evolved through the interpretation of key protection standards like Fair and Equitable Treatment and indirect expropriation. It examines how arbitral decisions have shaped, and been shaped …

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the EU regulation of genome edited plants and its compatibility with WTO law and the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA). It analyses in detail whether the EU authorisation procedures, labelling …

This book explores key innovations in the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement that shape Vietnam’s ability to regulate for environmental protection—an essential pillar of sustainable development. It places this regulatory power within …

Dive into the intricate world of international trade with this original analysis of Regulatory Cooperation Chapters in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). This book meticulously examines for the first time the content, legal nature, and implications of …

From the Law and Economics perspective, the book reveals the gaps of the trade multilateral system that allows governments to draw upon subsidies strategies according to their unilateral interests. The book suggests that failures in WTO mechanisms …

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the interrelation between the European Union’s ESG regulation (or Sustainable Finance) and international trade law, which to date have only been assessed separately. The inherent similarities and …

This book delves into the intricacies of encouraging African states' participation in a Multilateral Investment Court (MIC), set against the backdrop of their experiences with international investment agreements and the Investor-State Dispute …

This monograph provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate legal challenges arising at the intersection of digital trade and data privacy. It argues in favour of an integrated approach to understanding the dynamic interaction between …

The book provides a comparative assessment of the legal regimes governing movement of persons in East African region. It compares the approaches used by the regional integration arrangements adopted both at the continental and sub-regional level …

This open access book offers a new account on the legal conflict between privacy and trade in the digital sphere. It develops a fundamental rights theory with a new right to continuous protection of personal data and explores the room for the …

This book examines the interplay between cooperation on technical barriers to trade (TBT) in free trade agreements and the multilateral framework of the World Trade Organization. In recent years, TBT, especially differences in standards, have …

The book focusses on applying a holistic overview of interim measures and associated procedures in the context of cross-border private law (civil and commercial) disputes that are the subject of international litigation and arbitration …

This book explores the role of trade remedies in liberalising environmental trade and discouraging environmentally harmful trade. As trade remedies can pose a significant obstacle to environmental trade, this book outlines how trade negotiators …

The global energy economy is undergoing a profound transformation, yielding several pivotal objectives. Foremost among these is mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and toxic pollutants. Another essential goal involves promoting more sustainable …

This book provides innovative and empirically based insights into the ongoing debate on the fragmentation of international trade law. It offers the reader a much-needed doctrinal overview of the different approaches to the issue of fragmentation …

This book critically analyses the availability of environmental counterclaims in investment arbitration presented by the respondent host state against the claimant investor. It starts from the premise that the conflicting relation between …

This book provides a fresh perspective on resolving sovereign debt disputes within the investor-state mediation framework. In response to the limitations of traditional approaches to adjudicating public debt issues and the resulting gaps in …