International Economic Law, Globalization and Developing Countries

Edited by Julio Faundez, Professor (Emeritus), School of Law and Celine Tan, Reader in Law and Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK

• Contents:1. IntroductionJulio Faundez and Celine Tan2. International Economic Law and Development: Before and After Neo-LiberalismJulio Faundez3. Multilateral Disciplines and the Question of Policy SpaceYilmaz Akyüz4. Assessing International Financial ReformDaniel Bradlow5. Crisis and Opportunity: Emerging Economies and the Financial Stability BoardEnrique R. Carrasco6. The New Disciplinary Framework: Conditionality, New Aid Architecture and Global Economic GovernanceCeline Tan7. Taxing Constraints on Developing Countries and the Global Economic RecessionDavid Salter8. The World Trade Organization and the Turbulent Legacy of International Economic Law-making in the Long Twentieth CenturyFiona Macmillan9. Holistic Approaches to Development and International Investment Law: The Role of International Investment AgreementsPeter Muchlinski10. Human Rights and Transnational Corporations: Establishing Meaningful International ObligationsJames Harrison11. Core Labour Standards Conditionalities: A Means by Which to Achieve Sustainable Development?Tonia Novitz12. Developing Countries and International Competition Law and PolicyKathryn McMahon13. Does the Globalization of Anti-Corruption Law Help Developing Countries?Kevin E. Davis14. Intellectual Property, Development Concerns and Developing CountriesPedro Roffe15. Biotechnology and the International Regulation of Food and Fuel Security in Developing CountriesMary E. Footer16. Environment and Development – The Missing LinkPhilippe Cullet17. The UN Climate Change Convention and Developing Countries: Towards Effective ImplementationVicente Paolo B. Yu IIIBibliography Index

'This book is both breathtaking in its scope and impressive in its attention to legal and institutional detail in situating developing countries in the evolving body of international economic law. Essays in this volume canvas most important areas of international economic law, including international trade law, international financial regulation, the regulation of foreign direct investment and multinational corporations, foreign aid, the enforcement of human rights standards and core international labour standards on multinational corporations, international enforcement of anti-corruption conventions, international competition law, international intellectual property rights, and international environmental law. A pervasive theme, compellingly developed, in most of these papers is the asymmetric structure of international institutions that generate rules in these various areas, in which developing countries are mostly rule takers, rather than equal participants. The current global financial crisis may provide a welcome opportunity for re-evaluating these institutional asymmetries. In any such re-evaluation, this book will provide a veritable cornucopia of constructive new insights.'