Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2017

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Shifting Forms and Levels of Cooperation in International Economic Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Development of the US and the EU Preferential Trade Agreement Networks: A Tale of Power and Prestige

      • Panayotis M. Protopsaltis

      Pages 3-36

   3. From the Tripartite to the Continental Free Trade Areas: Designs, Outcomes and Implications for African Trade and Integration

      • Gerhard Erasmus, Trudi Hartzenberg

      Pages 37-56

   4. From TRIPS to FTAs and Back: Re-Conceptualising the Role of a Multilateral IP Framework in a TRIPS-Plus World

      • Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan

      Pages 57-107

   5. External Consultants as Actors in European Trade and Investment Policymaking

      • Fernando Dias Simões

      Pages 109-138

   6. Prosumers: New Actors in EU Energy Security

      • Rafael Leal-Arcas, Feja Lesniewska, Filippos Proedrou

      Pages 139-172

   7. The Evolving Role of Sub-National Actors in International Economic Relations: Lessons from the Canada-European Union CETA

      • Ohiocheoya Omiunu

      Pages 173-205

   8. The Potential of Transnational Regulations: The Interactions Between Traditional and Non-Traditional Sources of International Economic Law

      • Gabriel Webber Ziero

      Pages 207-229

   9. International Regulatory Cooperation in the Field of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: Drawing Multilateral Lessons from the Regional Dimension

      • Svetlana Chobanova

      Pages 231-265

   10. The Growing Tendency of Including Investment Chapters in PTAs

       • Maksim Usynin, Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi

       Pages 267-304

   11. Trade in the Digital Era: Prospects and Challenges for an International Single Window Environment

       • Abhinayan Basu Bal, Trisha Rajput

       Pages 305-326

   12. Between Shifts and Continuum in Cooperation: The International Securities Regulatory Regime and its Gradual Evolution

       • Monique Egli Costi

       Pages 327-377

3. Dutch Practice in International Law

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 379-379

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   2. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in (National) Action: The Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garment and Textile

      • Antoine Duval, Enrico Partiti

      Pages 381-409

   3. Recognition of Sign Language Under International Law: A Case Study of Dutch Sign Language in the Netherlands

      • Swen Meereboer, Kika Meereboer, Otto Spijkers

      Pages 411-431

4. Back Matter

   Pages 433-454

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This Volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores emerging trends and key developments in international economic law. It examines shifts in the levels of cooperation (from multilateral to plurilateral, regional or bilateral—or vice versa), and shifts in the forms of cooperation (new types of actors and instruments). These trends are analysed both from a conceptual and a practical perspective, with contributions addressing drivers for change, historical perspectives, future developments, and evolutions in specific policy fields. While a focus on international economic law may certainly not tell the whole story in relation to shifts in levels and forms of international cooperation, it does allow for a more detailed analysis of some of the important trends we currently witness.

The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law was first published in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles in a varying thematic area of public international law.       

• International Economic Law
• Trade
• Investment
• Finance
• Multilateralism
• Plurilateralism
• Regionalism
• Levels of cooperation
• Forms of cooperation
• Sustainability

• Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  Fabian Amtenbrink

• Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

  Denise Prévost

• Centre for European Studies, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Ramses A. Wessel

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