European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2016

Volume 7 of the EYIEL focusses on criticalperspectives of international economic law. Recent protests against free tradeagreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)remind us that international economic law has always been a politically andlegally contested field. This volume collects critical contributions on trade,investment, financial and other subfields of international economic law fromscholars who have shaped this debate for many years. The critical contributionsto this volume are challenged and sometimes rejected by commentators who havebeen invited to be “critical with the critics”. The result is a uniquecollection of critical essays accompanied by alternative and competing views onsome of the most fundamental topics of international economic law.

In its section on regional developments, EYIEL 7addresses recent megaregional and plurilateral trade and investment agreementsand negotiations. Short insights on various aspects of the TranspacificPartnership (TPP) and its sister TTIP are complemented with comments on otherdevelopments, including the African Tripartite FTA und the negotiations on aplurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA). Further sections addressrecent WTO and investment case law as well as recent developments concerningthe IMF, UNCTAD and the WCO. The volume closes with reviews of recent books ininternational economic law.