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  • Advanced Introduction to International Trade Law

    Third Edition

    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    This updated third edition of what has become a modern classic provides a succinct overview of the fundamental concepts of international trade law. Written by two leading scholars with 70 years of collective experience in the area, it discusses the basic structure and principles of trade law alongside specific GATT and WTO legal rules and institutions.Key Features:Presents accessible analytical ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Regulation of International Trade

    Drawing on a wide variety of classic and contemporary sources, respected authors Trebilcock and Howse here provide a critical analysis of the institutions and agreements that have shaped international trade rules. In light of the growing debate over globalization, they include special sections examinations of topics such as:* agriculture* services and trade-related intellectual property rights* ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Paradoxes of Professional Regulation

    In Search of Regulatory Principles

    Occupational licensure, including regulation of the professions, dates back to the medieval period. While the guilds that performed this regulatory function have long since vanished, professional regulation continues to this day. For instance, in the United States, 22 per cent of American workers must hold licenses simply to do their jobs. While long-established professions have more settled ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Dealing with Losers

    The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

    Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Public Inquiries

    A Scholar’s Engagements with the Policy-Making Process

    Series series UTP Insights
    An internationally renowned scholar of law and economics, Michael J. Trebilcock has spent over fifty years teaching and researching at the intersection between ideas, interests, and institutions. In Public Inquiries, Trebilcock reflects on his extensive experiences and sheds light on the role of scholars in engaging with the Canadian public policy-making process.Drawing on a number of case studies ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Limits of Freedom of Contract

    Our legal system is committed to the idea that private markets and the law of contracts that supports them are the primary institutions for allocating goods and services in a modern economy. Yet the market paradigm, this book argues, leaves substantial room for challenge. For example, should people be permitted to buy and sell blood, bodily organs, surrogate babies, or sexual favors? Is it fair to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Reshaping the Mosaic

    Canadian Immigration Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series UTP Insights
    Immigration remains a cornerstone of national policy, although it has undergone significant transformations across economic, family, and refugee admission streams in the past two decades. Reshaping the Mosaic offers an insightful exploration of Canada's immigration policy, ranging from its historical roots to contemporary developments.The book examines the growth in permanent and temporary ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Reshaping the Mosaic

    Canadian Immigration Policy in the Twenty-First Century

    Series series UTP Insights
    Immigration remains a cornerstone of national policy, although it has undergone significant transformations across economic, family, and refugee admission streams in the past two decades. Reshaping the Mosaic offers an insightful exploration of Canada's immigration policy, ranging from its historical roots to contemporary developments.The book examines the growth in permanent and temporary ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to International Trade Law

    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    This book presents an accessible yet nuanced introduction to the basic structure and principles of international trade law. It explores the development of the international trade law regime, principally GATT and WTO law, and through clear and concise discussion of the many developments that have arisen, gives a streamlined overview of this notoriously complex area of legal study. Elgar Advanced ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Trade and Transitions

    A Comparative Analysis of Adjustment Policies

    Faced with increased levels of international competition and mounting budget deficits some developed, Western economies have responded by introducing trade restrictions. This book uses a comparative analysis of eight leading industrial nations (including Japan, the United States, West Germany and Britain) to demonstrate that such policies are mistaken. Alternatives to trade restrictions, including ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Design of Competition Law Institutions

    Global Norms, Local Choices

    Series series Law And Global Governance
    Competition (or antitrust) law is national law. More than 120 jurisdictions have adopted their own competition law. Is there a need for convergence of the competition law systems of the world? Much effort has been devoted to nudging substantive law convergence in the absence of an international law of competition. But it is widely acknowledged that institutions play as great a role as substantive ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Institutional Bypasses

    A Strategy to Promote Reforms for Development

    Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the concept captures practices already being used in developing countries. In this illuminating book, Mariana Mota Prado and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD