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World Trade Law after Neoliberalism : Reimagining the Global Economic Order.

It is often argued that there is an inherent tension between international human rights law and the rules of free trade. This book explores the assumptions underlying this debate and argues that we need to reconsider them, focusing more on how expert knowledge and informal relationships shape trade...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lang, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Tables of Treaties and Official Documents of International Organizations; Tables of Cases; 1. Introduction; Argument 1: Understanding the neoliberal turn; Argument 2: Renewing the politics of collective purpose; The structure of the book; I. REGIME ENCOUNTERS: TRADE AND HUMAN RIGHTS; 2. 'Trade and Human Rights' in Historical Perspective; I. The first decades: 'mutual isolation' and its deeper foundations; II. The development challenge and the beginnings of regime conflict; III. Neoliberal resurgence; IV. Conclusion; 3. The Global Justice Movement.
  • I. Mobilization against free trade in the 1980s and 1990sII. Human rights in the global justice movement; 4. Inter-Regime Contestation; I. International human rights institutions' engagements with trade; II. The discursive framework of 'coherence'; III. Conclusion; 5. The Limits of Coherence; I. Coherence and its consequences; II. Strategies of inter-regime integration; III. Conclusion to Part I; II. THE TRADE REGIME AND THE NEOLIBERAL TURN; 6. Against Objectivism; I. The objectivist fallacy; II. Avoiding subjectivism and idealism; III. Conclusion; 7. Embedded Liberalism and Purposive Law.
  • I. The nature and purpose of the post-war trade regimeII. Approaches to domestic regulation in the GATT's early decades; 8. Neoliberalism and the Formal-Technical Turn; I. The expanding scope of application of GATT/WTO disciplines on domestic regulation; II. The formalization and technicalization of GATT/WTO disciplines on domestic regulation; III. The changing jurisprudence on domestic regulation, 1980-2000; IV. Conclusion: a new legal imagination; 9. Trade in Services; I. An open-ended agreement; II. Telecommunications; III. Financial services; IV. Catalogues; V. Conclusion to Part II.
  • III. CONCLUSION10. Conclusion: After Neoliberalism?; I. Crisis of legitimacy in a post-neoliberal era; II. New developments in GATT disciplines on domestic regulation; III. Post-positivism and proceduralization under the SPS Agreement; IV. Post-neoliberalism and the re-moralization of international trade law; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.