Principles of International Trade and Investment Law

Andrew D. Mitchell, Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University and Elizabeth Sheargold, Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong, Australia

This essential book discusses a wide range of important legal principles such as procedural fairness and reasonableness in the context of international trade and investment law. Using comparative methodology, the authors examine how those principles are reflected in treaties and how they are employed by adjudicators resolving disputes.

‘Principles of International Trade and Investment Law is an impressive tour de force combining in-depth theoretical analysis and crucial information for practitioners, students and teachers alike. The study of the selected principles (procedural fairness, reasonableness, necessity and non-discrimination) offers rich opportunities for intellectual cross-fertilization between the fields of international trade and investment law.’
– Maxi Scherer, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London and WilmerHale, London, UK

‘In this thorough and illuminating study Andrew D. Mitchell and Elizabeth Sheargold explore the role that principles play in international trade and investment law. They show us how the principles of due process and reasonableness have a central place in international economic law, and the treaty rules on non-discrimination and necessity are underpinned by broader principles of non-discrimination and necessity. This is a rich and insightful analysis of the little-explored interaction of rules and principles in international trade and investment law.’
– Donald McRae, University of Ottawa, Canada

虽然许多教科书exist on cross-fertilisation between international trade law and international investment law, here the authors present a comparative analysis of key principles on an unprecedented scale. This book focuses on two increasingly important sectors of government regulation: management of cross-border data transfers and the protection of financial systems. This work provides an essential contribution to address contemporary trade and investment challenges and a most valuable tool for academics, practitioners and officials.’
– Gabrielle Marceau, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Senior Counsellor at the WTO