Transatlantic Regulatory Co-Operation: Legal Problems and Political Prospects

This title comprises a bundle of techniques for reconciling the needs of international trade with the diversity of national regulatory environments and public demands. The processes involved are still poorly understood, due partly to the fact that they have been largely improvisational, with the result that the framework of regulatory cooperation is still very much a work in progress. International regulatory relations have commonly been viewed through the prism of international organizations, on the one hand, and international trade disputes, on the other. However, neither of these perspectives offers an adequate understanding of the ways in which international regulatory relations are managed or may be managed more effectively. While the one risks overstating the readiness of states to cede regulatory authority to international institutions, the other risks ignoring the reality of and prospects for cooperative behavior This book is intended for academic lawyers (particularly in the field of constitutional law, administrative law, EU law and economics, and international economic law), economists, political scientists, policy-makers, students interested in regulation and its int

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This collection offers a range of highly thought provoking and sophisticated papers, which will undoubtedly be seen as a significant contribution to our understanding not only of transatlantic regulatory co-operation, but of regulation as a whole, in the increasingly integrated global economy. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics ... usable not only as a convenient location for specific stand-alone papers but as a coherent text on the subject. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics Without doubt this is a seminal contribution to the field. The collection offers a wide range of approaches and covers most, if not all, of the significant issues that a student of this field needs to master. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics