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Transforming World Trade and Investment Law for Sustainable Development
This book explains why the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda for "Transforming our World", including 17 agreed sustainable development goals, requires transforming the UN and WTO legal systems, as well as international investment law and adjudication.
Author(s) | By Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, European University Institute). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 368 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 10 Mar 2022 |
Availability | Available |
This book explains why the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda for "Transforming our World", including 17 agreed sustainable development goals, requires transforming the UN and WTO legal systems, as well as international investment law and adjudication.
Introduction 1: Overview: Sustainable Development without Democratic Governance Protecting Human Rights 2: Governance Failures: UN Law and WTO Law Fail to Protect Sustainable Development 3: Constitutional Failures: Neo-Liberal and State-Capitalist Trad
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann is Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute. He has taught constitutional, international, and European law at Universities in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the USA, Latin-America, South-Africa, China, India, and Singa