Legal References
The following resources provide a good overview over the relevant areas of international law in trade, investment and competition and are either focused on sustainable development issues or include interesting chapters about such issues. Please also take a look at the publications list of the CISDL.
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Markus W Gehring & Andrew Newcombe, eds, Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2010).
Markus W. Gehring & Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2005)
Gary Sampson, The WTO and Sustainable Development (Tokyo: UNU Press, 2005)
Robert Howse & Michael Trebilcock, Regulation of International Trade, 3rd ed. (Routledge, Boston 2005)
Andrew Newcombe & Luis Paradell, Law and Practice of Investment Treaties: Standards of Treatment (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2009)
Andreas F. Lowenfeld, International Economic Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
The following are a small selection of websites containing some of the most recent information of international trade law and practice and also informative sections about sustainable development:
- The World Trade Organization
- The United Nations Development Programme
- The World Bank
- The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes
- The Association of South East Asian Nations
- The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
- The International Institute for Sustainable Development
- The Canadian Ministry of International Trade
- The European Directorate General for Trade
- The Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa