Editorial: United States’ Free Trade Agreements: A Silent (R)Evolution?

Protopsaltis, Panayotis (2016) Editorial: United States’ Free Trade Agreements: A Silent (R)Evolution? British Journal of American Legal Studies, 5 (2). pp. 293-298. ISSN 2049-4092

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Abstract

The shift from multilateralism to regionalism, plurilateralism and bilateralism in international trade negotiations, amongst others, changed the focus of the academic debate. The challenge of free trade agreements rather than of the WTO now occupy most of the discussions of the relevant epistemic communities all over the world; a trend that is likely to intensify since the conclusion of the TTP and the advancement of the negotiations on the TTIP. This special issue of the British Journal of American Legal Studies, conceived just before the unexpected conclusion of the TTP negotiations, responds to the need for research on the recent U.S. free trade agreements. It does not intend to provide a comprehensive analysis of the problems related to the rise of these agreements or of the content of the agreements themselves. Its aim is rather to focus on selected issues arising from the different obligations included in these agreements. Twelve distinguished international trade and investment law scholars across the world were invited to explore key aspects of particular U.S. free trade agreements. Contributors were not restricted by a research agenda, their independence was respected and hence their approaches do not necessarily converge, even though all share similar concerns in relation to the expansion of the U.S. free trade agreements.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjals-2016-0009
Dates:
DateEvent
31 December 2016Published
1 October 2016Accepted
Subjects: CAH16 - law > CAH16-01 - law > CAH16-01-01 - law
Divisions: Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Law
Depositing User: Panayotis Protopsaltis
Date Deposited: 24 Aug 2018 09:13
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2022 15:55
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6081

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