Global values and international trade law / edited by Csongor István Nagy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : global values and international trade law / Csongor István Nagy -- Business meets human rights : do we need an international treaty to close the gap? / Nóra Chronowski -- Non-trade values, international trade and abuse of rights / Anthony Cassimatis -- International labour standards and non-trade values / József Hajdú -- Climate change : the tipping point for Investment Treaty Reform / Rebecca E. Khan -- International Investment Agreements and sustainable environmental development : the Case of the Kyrgyz Republic's Mining Sector / Begaiym Esenkulova -- Global labor rights and the interstitial role of Trade Law / Alan Hyde -- Trade, intellectual property rights and the exercise of autonomy / David Tilt -- Copyright aspects of the European Union's Free Trade Agreements / Péter Mezei -- Extricating the illegality requirement from judicial expropriation / Martin Jarrett -- Third party funding for SME access to investment arbitration / Bálint Kovács -- Foreign investment policy in the Post-Lisbon Common Commercial Policy. An institutionalist perspective / Péter Márton and Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi -- International investment agreements : recalibration in progress: regulating investor behaviour through IIAs / Lukas Vanhonnaeker.

"Exploring the relationship and interaction between economic interests and normative non-trade values, this book argues that the emergence and development of non-trade values is based on a complex dialectic interaction between selfish economic interests and normative values, and examines how their structural interdependence has given rise to a remarkable evolution in international trade. Conceiving this relationship as an intricate dialectic one that is neither purely value-driven, nor purely economic-interest-driven, it addresses the emergence, function and role of non-trade values in international trade with a synthetizing approach and explores the results of their interaction in international economic intercourse. Approaching the non-trade issues of trade in a holistic manner, the book demonstrates that trade can operate smoothly only if it is framed by an architecture of normative value standards and international trade liberalization has reached the level where further development calls for cooperation also in fields that, at first glance, may appear to be non-trade in nature"-- Provided by publisher.