The Future of International Economic Law and the Rule of Law

This book explores the contribution that international economic law generally defined make to the rule of law at national and international levels. The contributions of this book either:

(i) examine particular features of the rule of law from a viewpoint of the contribution (at international or domestic legal level) that international economic law makes to these features, such as accountable institutions, clarity, judicial review, non-discrimination, predictability, and transparency, as well as the respect of fundamental rights, democracy, and substantive justice; or

(ii) make case-studies of countries whose legislation and governmental practice show a correlation - or a lack thereof - between international economic law, on the one hand, and the rule of law, on the other hand. Contributors include:

Rafael Leal-Arcas, Queen Mary University of London

Giorgio Sacerdoti, Bocconi University

Leonardo Borlini, Bocconi University

Du Ming, University of Durham

Aik Hoe Lim, Trade and Environment Division at the WTO

Axel Marx, University of Leuven

Velimir Zivkovic, University of Warwick

Stephen Minas, King's College London

Laura Regueiro, Queen Mary University of London

Peter Vajda, Energy Community Secretariat

Varvara Aleksic, Central European University Budapest/Vienna Edited by Rafael Leal-Arcas, Jean Monnet Chaired Professor of European and International Economic Law, Queen Mary University of London (Centre for Commercial Law Studies), United Kingdom. This book has been written with the financial support of the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union, which funded my Jean Monnet Chair in EU International Economic Law (project number 575061-EPP-1-2016-1-UK-EPPJMOCHAIR).