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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.

33 Series Titles


Trade, Migration and Law Free Movement of Persons in the Southern African Development Community

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

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

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

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 ...

International Investment Law and the Right to Regulate A human rights perspective

International Investment Law and the Right to Regulate: A human rights perspective

1st Edition

By Lone Wandahl Mouyal
June 01, 2018

The book considers the ways in which the international investment law regime intersects with the human rights regime, and the potential for clashes between the two legal orders. Within the human rights regime states may be obligated to regulate, including a duty to adopt regulation aiming at ...

Equity and Equitable Principles in the World Trade Organization Addressing Conflicts and Overlaps between the WTO and Other Regimes

Equity and Equitable Principles in the World Trade Organization: Addressing Conflicts and Overlaps between the WTO and Other Regimes

1st Edition

By Anastasios Gourgourinis
December 21, 2017

This book analyses whether, and how, equity and equitable principles can be employed as juridical tools in the legal reasoning of judges and lawyers in World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes where there is interaction between norms derived from the multilateral trade regime and other international...

Culture and International Economic Law

Culture and International Economic Law

1st Edition

Edited By Valentina Vadi, Bruno de Witte
November 07, 2016

Globalization and international economic governance offer unprecedented opportunities for cultural exchange. Foreign direct investments can promote cultural diversity and provide the funds needed to locate, recover and preserve cultural heritage. Nonetheless, globalization and international ...

International Investment Law A Chinese Perspective

International Investment Law: A Chinese Perspective

1st Edition

By Guiguo Wang
August 03, 2016

Increasing and intensified cross-border economic exchange such as trade and investment is an important feature of globalization. In the past, a distinction could be made between capital importing and exporting countries, or host and home countries for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to ...

The WTO and Infant Industry Promotion in Developing Countries Perspectives on the Chinese Large Civil Aircraft

The WTO and Infant Industry Promotion in Developing Countries: Perspectives on the Chinese Large Civil Aircraft

1st Edition

By Juan He
July 27, 2016

The charter of the World Trade Organization (WTO) sets the tone that sustainable trade and economic development dominates multilateral trade negotiation and specific working agreements. This book examines the novel challenge for developing countries to upgrade and optimize their industrial ...

Foreign Investment, International Law and Common Concerns

Foreign Investment, International Law and Common Concerns

1st Edition

Edited By Tullio Treves, Francesco Seatzu, Seline Trevisanut
July 16, 2015

Increasingly, transnational corporations, developed countries and private actors are broadening the boundaries of their investments into new territories, in search of a higher return on capital. This growth in direct foreign investment involves serious concerns for both the investor and host state....

Science and Technology in International Economic Law Balancing Competing Interests

Science and Technology in International Economic Law: Balancing Competing Interests

1st Edition

Edited By Bryan Mercurio, Kuei-Jung Ni
July 16, 2015

Science and technology plays an increasingly important role in the continued development of international economic law. This book brings together well-known and rising scholars to explore the status and interaction of science, technology and international economic law. The book reviews the place of...

Microtrade A New System of International Trade with Volunteerism Towards Poverty Elimination

Microtrade: A New System of International Trade with Volunteerism Towards Poverty Elimination

1st Edition

Edited By Yong-Shik Lee
May 21, 2015

With contributions from well-regarded scholars of international economic law, this book sets out the case for an innovative solution to extreme poverty which utilizes international trade and its legal framework to relieve populations of the poorest countries around the world of extreme poverty. "...

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