Balancing Act: Law, Policy and Politics in Globalisation and Global Trade
Balancing Act: Law, Policy and Politics in Globalisation and Global Trade
by Jianfu Chen and Gordon Walker
Softcover 360 pgs.
Published: September 2004
ISBN: 1-86287-539-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-86287-539-5
$55.00

Balancing Act: Law, Policy and Politics in Globalisation and Global Trade

This volume focuses attention on world trade regulation issues in Australia. Published in the shadow of the Australia-USA Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) in 2004, it takes a wide-ranging and sceptical approach to the area.

It features:

  • an examination of the WTO through the lens of globalisation (Camilleri and Myconos);
  • the case against the AUSFTA (Garnaut);
  • the CER Agreement (Walker);
  • the question of special and differential treatment of LDCs within the WTO (Chen);
  • the WTO and Islamic Law (Bhala);
  • national treatment under the WTO (McMahon);
  • intellectual property protection (Drahos and Braithwaite);
  • FDI and the WTO (Sornarajah);
  • trade in services (Islam);
  • labour law issues (Murray); and
  • environmental issues (Harris).
Balancing Act is a special issue (Volume 21) of the journal Law in Context.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: Towards a Fairer Order by Rules - Jianfu Chen and Gordon Walker

PART ONE: GLOBALISM, REGIONALISM AND BILATERALISM
CHAPTER 1: WTO: The Competitive Dynamic of Globalisation at Work - Joseph A. Camilleri and George Myconos
CHAPTER 2: The CER Agreement and Trans-Tasman Business Law Coordination: From 'Soft Law' Approach to ‘Hard Law’ Outcome - Gordon Walker

PART TWO: GLOBAL ISSUES AND GLOBAL CONCERNS
CHAPTER 3: 'S & D' Treatment for Developing Countries in the WTO Trade Regime: A False Solution on a Wrong Footing for LDCs - Jianfu Chen
CHAPTER 4: The Intersection of Islam and the WTO: Three Shari’a Issues in the WTO Accession of Saudi Arabia - Raj Bhala
CHAPTER 5: National Regulation and the WTO: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? - Joseph A. McMahon
CHAPTER 6: Hegemony Based on Knowledge: The Role of Intellectual Property - Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite
CHAPTER 7: Good Corporate Citizenship and the Conduct of Multinational Corporations - M. Sornarajah
CHAPTER 8: Pressing Issues of Global Free Trade in Services - M. Rafiqul Islam
CHAPTER 9: Labour Issues in Times of Globalisation: Is the Social Clause an Appropriate Legal Response? - Jill Murray
CHAPTER 10: Beyond Doha: Clarifying the Role of the WTO in Determining Trade-Environment Disputes - Mark Harris

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