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"Preface" [2007] ELECD 91; in Guzman, T. Andrew; Sykes, O. Alan (eds), "Research Handbook in International Economic Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007)

Book Title: Research Handbook in International Economic Law

Editor(s): Guzman, T. Andrew; Sykes, O. Alan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843766742

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface


The Research Handbook in International Economic Law provides a broad
survey of issues in the regulation of international economic activity. Our
primary goal in producing the book is to provide an up to date and accessible
survey of the law and policy issues in each area. Each of the authors is an
expert in his or her field, and each chapter offers both a survey of the state of
the law and an analysis of current issues. Several chapters are devoted to the
regulation of international trade, evidencing the extent to which international
cooperation in that area has outstripped most others. Other chapters discuss
international investment, commercial law, tax, finance, competition policy,
intellectual property, environmental law, telecommunications, and private
dispute settlement.
Individually the chapters offer thoughtful and sophisticated discussions of
these individual areas. Collectively they illustrate the wide range of strategies
that have been and should be adopted to meet the challenge of regulating inter-
national business activity. They also demonstrate how varied international
cooperation is across fields. It is highly developed and formalized in, for
example, international trade and tax. In other areas, such as competition
policy, there is only modest cooperation among states. In some areas, such as
dispute resolution, there is heavy reliance on domestic institutions to make
inter-national transactions possible, while in other areas such as the environ-
ment there is greater emphasis on international instruments.
Given the diversity of relevant issue areas it should not surprise us to
observe that states have chosen ...