Kyle W Bagwell

Preferential Trade Agreements: A Law and Economics Analysis Kyle W Bagwell

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2011.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; 8; This volume assembles a group of experts to examine preferential trade agreements (PTAs). It presents a discussion of the evolving economic analysis regarding PTAs and the various dysfunctions that continually place them among the priority items for negotiation by the WTO.. Table of Contents: 1. Preferential trading agreements: friend or foe? L. Alan Winters; 2. The legalization of GATT Article XXIV - can foes become friends? James H. Mathis; 3. Third country effects of regional trade agreements Caroline Freund; 4. Contingent protection rules in regional trade agreements Thomas J. Prusa and Robert Teh; 5. Commentary on Prusa/Teh, contingent protection rules in regional trade agreements David A. Gantz; 6. The limits of PTAs: WTO legal restrictions on the use of WTO-plus standards regulation in PTAs Joel P. Trachtman; 7. Beyond the WTO? an anatomy of EU and US preferential trade agreements Henrik Horn, Petros C. Mavroidis and Andre Sapir; 8. Straightening the spaghetti bowl Gary N. Horlick; 9. Comments on 'Beyond the WTO? Coverage and legal inflation in EU and US preferential trade agreements' by Horn, Mavroidis and Sapir Nuno Limao; 10. Labour clauses in EU preferential trade agreements - an analysis of the Cotonou Partnership agreement Jeff Kenner; 11. Do PTAs actually increase parties' services trade? Juan A. Marchetti; 12. A model Article XXIV: are there realistic possibilities to improve it? William J. Davey; 13. Comments on 'A model Article XXIV: are there realistic possibilities to improve it?' by William Davey T. N. Srinivasan."Brief Description: Examines preferential trade agreements and the various dysfunctions that place them among the priority items for negotiation by the WTO.

Contributor Bio:  Bagwell, Kyle W George Bermann is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law (a chair conferred by the Commission of the European Communities), as well as the Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He has been a member of the Columbia Law School faculty since 1975, teaching a range of comparative, international, and transnational law subjects, including EU law and transnational litigation and arbitration. Professor Bermann is also a member of the teaching faculty of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and also regularly teaches at the Universities of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), as well as the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris. More recently, Professor Bermann was Tocqueville-Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Paris from June to December 2006. He is the President of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the former President of the American Society of Comparative Law, co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law, and currently chief reporter of the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of the U. S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration. Contributor Bio:  Mavroidis, Petros C Petros C. Mavroidis is a trade lawyer and CEPR Fellow, has taught at Princeton University and EUI Florence and was previously with the WTO.