World Trade and Local Public Interest

Csongor István Nagy is professor of law at and head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged. He is recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University (Budapest/New York), the Sapientia University of Transylvania (Romania) and the Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia) and associate member at the Centre for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is admitted to the Budapest Bar and arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Budapest.

• Editorial.- Part I: World Trade: global issues and regional challenges. 1. World trade, national interests and international governance.- 2. International economic order after Trump.- 3. Value standards and free trade.- Part II: Regional economic integrations in the 21st century: FTAs and customs unions. 4. Renegotiating NAFTA: risks and rewards of reopening the North American Trade Relationship.- 5. How Member State interests are allowed to shape the EU Single Market?.- 6. Latin American trade policies reconsidered: the “convergence while diversity” mantra.- Part III: Regional Economic Integrations: Federal Markets. 7. The Supreme Court’s Changing Efforts Via Its Dormant Commerce Clause Jurisprudence to Navigate State Police Power and National Free Trade.- 8. The construction of a “federal market” for Australia.- 9. India’s tryst with free trade: overcoming the inherent challenges of protectionism.- Part IV: International investment protection. 10. Lex mercatoria publica: constitutional law and constitutional limits in private-public arbitration.- 11. Constitutional standards of developed democracies and the requirements embedded in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: do foreign investors need special protection?.- 12. Investor-state arbitration between developed democracies: a NAFTA perspective.- 13. Third party participation by non-government organizations in international investment arbitration: transparency as a tool for protecting marginalized interests.- 14. Investment protection under the CETA: pouring old wine into new bottles?.