Graeme Baber – författare

The multilateral trade agreements in the Annexes to the Agreement Establishingthe World Trade Organization provide a comprehensive structure for internationaltrade. Why would trading partners in different countries feel the need togo outside this framework in order to set up preferential trade arrangements?This book considers the structure of the World Trade Organization’s agreementsand the types of preferential trade arrangements, and deliberates the value of thelatter in the light of the operation of the former.Preferential Trade Agreements and International Law offers a comprehensiveexamination of preferential trade agreements and considers the features of specificregional and bilateral trade agreements without drawing upon systematicfeatures and trends. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and willbe of value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested ininternational trade and economic law.

The multilateral trade agreements in the Annexes to the Agreement Establishingthe World Trade Organization provide a comprehensive structure for internationaltrade. Why would trading partners in different countries feel the need togo outside this framework in order to set up preferential trade arrangements?This book considers the structure of the World Trade Organization’s agreementsand the types of preferential trade arrangements, and deliberates the value of thelatter in the light of the operation of the former.Preferential Trade Agreements and International Law offers a comprehensiveexamination of preferential trade agreements and considers the features of specificregional and bilateral trade agreements without drawing upon systematicfeatures and trends. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and willbe of value to researchers, academics, policymakers, and students interested ininternational trade and economic law.

This volume introduces the United Nations by considering its purposes, as stated in Article 1 of its Charter. It provides a concise history of this institution, and describes its structure, concentrating on its Funds and Programmes, Specialized Agencies, and Regional Commissions. It then splits the work into two different major sections, on the basis of topic and geographical region. The former includes the following: development, education, environment, food and agriculture, and peace and security, while the latter comprises Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. These are followed by reflective comments and concluding remarks.

Some years ago, while a Senior Lecturer-in-Law at BPP University, one of my Master of Laws’ students asked if he could write a dissertation in Maritime Law. He wanted to do a survey of the rules of both Admiralty Law and the Law of the Sea. The department contained no specialist in either of these fields, and I taught neither. As he could not be dissuaded from this plan, I had to undertake a rapid, informal, self-directed learning programme in the subjects in order to gain sufficient professional skill to be able to supervise, and, later, assess the dissertation. His project was surprisingly good–and I had my first contact with rules concerning territorial seas, contiguous zones, exclusive economic zones, continental shelves and high seas. My interest in these topics grew and, eventually, flourished in the project of this monograph. The book covers the laws in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 that concern baselines and boundary delimitation, together with cases which relate to these topics. There is also a major input to the monograph from procedural matters pertaining to the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and arbitration under Annex VII to the Convention, with an example case provided for each of these mechanisms. As States Parties to the Convention may make a Declaration under its Article 287 for the settlement of their disputes by one or more of these methods–together with special arbitration under Annex VIII to the Convention for four issues specified therein–this Article, together with the methods and the remainder of Part XV of the Convention, are core material for a systematic review of the Law of the Sea. In instances in which it is possible, comparisons are made between: (i) the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and its predecessors, i.e., the Geneva Conventions from 1958, and (ii) the rules of the International Court of Justice and those of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In essence, the Convention builds upon its precursory instruments, which tend to be simpler than the former, and the procedural rules for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea are similar or identical to those of the International Court of Justice, other than a few provisions that are new or materially modified from the terms of the Cour, but with the necessary changes from the latter being made. The cases at this level are fewer than in black-letter subjects of the law, but tend to be complex and, for the legal scholar, very interesting. This is especially true of the South China Sea Arbitration, which was a judgment of pioneering brilliance from an Annex VII arbitral tribunal composed of one academic and four experienced judges, to which a substantial literature has–in the short period since this case’s resolution–been devoted. The very best of luck with your reading!

This book, entitled Collected Papers: Financial Regulation in Estonia, Poland and Latvia within the Context of European Union Membership, brings together five papers that the author wrote during the course of his career. The first and the last are short articles on general topics – with the former being written approximately ten years earlier than the latter. Both are constructed around defining events – the first the enactment of the Lisbon Treaty, which can be seen with the benefit of hindsight as a time of unity and promise within the European Union, and the other the process of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union – a time at which both the unity and the promise have withered. The second and the third are substantive items – the former examining the extent to which laws of the then-new Member States of the European Union Estonia, Poland and Latvia comply with that Union’s free movement of capital rules, and the latter reporting the results of a survey of company executives within those three countries on their views as to the degree to which their businesses are affected by national limitations on the free movement of capital. The fourth paper investigates the extent to which accession to the European Union has affected regulation of the retail banking sector in those three states.

The monograph lists the cases at the international court of the two British judges who were members of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and the five British judges who were members of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), together with a short biography of each and a sample of his/her writing. Then, academic works and the separate and dissenting opinions at the ICJ of Judge Sir Arnold McNair and Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht are reviewed. Finally, an attempt is made to find their common ground.

The monograph considers the individual and joint dissertations, separate opinions and dissenting opinions that British judges Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, Sir Humphrey Waldock, Sir Robert Jennings, Dame Rosalyn Higgins and Sir Christopher Greenwood appended to Judgments and Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice. It provides information of the life of, and reviews some of the scholarship of, these judges. In the final chapter, the author endeavours to identify characteristics of the British judges of the International Court of Justice that are shared by some of all of these five jurists – together with their predecessors at the Court, Baron Arnold McNair and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht.

In Chapters 1 to 4, this monograph introduces the legal system of four English-Language jurisdictions, namely Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America, and then considers the regulators, and some of the laws that regulate, transactions in corporate securities there. Chapter 5 is comprised of concluding comments, based upon the work performed for the earlier chapters. Canadian securities’ law is enacted by administrations in its constituent provinces and territories, rather than by the federal Government, which creates a point of interest for this book.