Full Description
As global economic governance faces mounting challenges—from climate change to geopolitical shifts—the 2024 edition of EYIEL revisits the enduring debate of fragmentation vs. integration in international economic law. Exploring trade, investment, sustainability, and human rights, this volume examines the evolving interplay between economic regulation and pressing global concerns. With insights from leading scholars, it asks: Are we moving towards greater legal cohesion or deeper disintegration?
Contents
Distinguished Essay, by Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann.- Part I - Moving Towards Integration: Trade: Sustainable Development Within the Context of International Trade Law by İlke Göçmen.- Technology Transfer Under the TRIPS Agreement: A Comeback to Address Global Crises by Francisco Hernández Fernández.- Taking on a Life of Its Own? The Dynamic Institutional Architecture of the New Generation Trade Agreements of the EU by Sophia Paulini.- Human Rights and Global Supply Chains: European Trends and Developments by Giesela Rühl.- Trade Prohibitions on Forced-Labour Products: A First Assessment of the Forthcoming EU's Forced Labour Regulation by Valentina Grado.- Fundamental Economic Rights and the Market Access Constitution of the EU Internal Market by Rufat Babayev.- The EU 'Governance through Trade' Regulatory Model for the Sustainable Production and Consumption of Deforestation-Risk Commodities (DRCs): The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the Issues at Stake in its Implementation Stage by Concetta Maria Pontecorvo.- Policy Coherence for Development in the EU's Multidimensional Toolbox Against Deforestation: Unilateral, Bilateral and Multilateral Efforts by Saide Esra Akdogan and Francesco Cazzini.- ''Alcohol Causes Cancer": Objections to an Irish Labelling Law Reopen Old Debates About Trade and Non-Trade Issues and New Debates About Interaction of WTO and EU Law by Benn McGrady and Elisabet Ruiz Cairó.- The Quest of Balancing Data Regulatory Autonomy and International Commitments - Assessing the Impact of the General Agreement on Trade in Services and European Union - Vietnam Free Trade Agreement on Vietnam by Ngo Nguyen Thao Vy and Nguyen Xuan My Hien.- Short-Circuiting Technological Sovereignty? Assessing the Governance of Semiconductor Supply Chain (Chokepoints) Through the Lens of Emerging Export Control Regimes by Anh Nguyen.- Part II - Moving Towards Integration: Investment: The Legalisation of Corporate Social Responsibility in International Investment Agreements by Beichen Ding.- The Development of EU Investment Protection Policy "through" the Member States - Challenges and Opportunities for the EU by Eleftheria Asimakopoulou.- Third-Party Claims Before the Multilateral Investment Court: Enhancing Third-Party Rights in Investment Treaty Arbitration by Zamira Xhaferri and Jesús Robles.- Fortiter In Re, Suaviter In Modo? - Are Legality Clauses the Better Investor Obligations in International Investment Agreements? by Christian Daniel Hein.- Investors' Human Rights Obligations under International Investment Law - Current Practice by Huyen Doan.- The Right to Regulate in Environmental Protection - Insights From the EU-Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement and Implications for Vietnam by Nguyen Thi Lan Huong.- Worlds Apart: The Fairness Dimension of Securitisation Narratives in the Climate Change and Foreign Investment Context by Zaker Ahmad.- Reassessing State Consent in Investment Arbitration Vis-À-Vis Security Issues by Alexandros Bakos and Gautam Mohanty.
