Agriculture and the WTO Towards a New Theory of International Agricultural Trade Regulation

Abstract

This new monograph series is intended to provide a point of convergence for high quality, original work on various aspects of international economic and WTO law, ranging from established subject matter, such as international agri cultural trade or the application of core trade disciplines such as MFN, to cross-cutting issues involving the interaction of international standards in the fields of investment, tax, competition, food safety and consumer protection with international trade law or the relationship of horizontal exceptions such as the general exception to domestic regulatory barriers. Theoretically rigor ous, these books will take an analytical and discursive approach to the field, wherever possible drawing on insights from disciplines other than law, such as economics and politics, in an attempt to arrive at a genuinely inter-disciplinary perspective. Proposals are encouraged that primarily engage with new and previously under-developed themes in the field, or alternatively offer an inno vative analysis of areas of uncertainty in the existing law. Bringing together work from both established authors – academics and practitioners alike – and from a new generation of scholars, the Elgar International Economic Law Series aims to play an important role in the development of thinking in the field