International Trade and the Protection of the Environment

<p>Analyzing globalization and the increasing tension it has caused between the goals of free trade and environmental protection <em>International Trade and the Protection of the Environment</em> provides a comprehensive and detailed legal analysis both at the national and international level of what looks set to become the new legal order of the twenty-first century.</p><p>This book asks the questions does the treatment of ‘measures tantamount to expropriation’ have the capacity to lead to a ‘regulatory chill’ on environmental protection and what are the possibilities for claims before the UK courts that are based on alleged violations of international law?</p><p>To answer them the author offers:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>an informed and critical commentary on the continuing controversy on GMO products in particular on the recent WTO award in the EC-Biotech dispute</li> <li>a comparison of the treatment of the expropriation under NAFTA and bilateral investment treaties with position under article one of the first protocol of the European convention on human rights</li> <li>an analysis of the human rights dimension to claims for environmental damage against multi-national corporations focusing particularly on claims in the US under the Alien Trot Claims Act 1789.</li> </ul><p>Incisive and current this text is a valuable tool for postgraduate law students studying international and commercial law.</p>