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This collection of essays takes stock of the key challenges that have arisen since the entry into force of the General Agreement on Trade in Services in the mid-1990s and situates them in the context of the WTO's Doha Development Agenda and the proliferation of preferential agreements addressing services today. The multidisciplinary approach provides an opportunity for many of the world's leading experts and a number of new analytical voices to exchange ideas on the future of services trade and regulation. Cosmopolitan approaches to the treatment of labour mobility, the shape of services trade disciplines in the digital age and pro-competitive regulation in air transport are explored with a view to helping readers gain a better understanding of the forces shaping the changes. An essential read for all those concerned with the evolution of the rules-based trading system and its impact on the service economy.
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This page intentionally left blank GATS AND THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES This collection of essays takes stock of the key challenges that have arisen since the entry into force of the General Agreement on Trade in Services in the mid-1990s and situates them in the context of the WTO’s Doha Development Agenda and the proliferation of preferential agreements addressing services today. The multidisciplinary approach provides an opportunity for many of the world’s leading experts and a number of new analytical voices to exchange ideas on the future of services trade and regulation. Cosmopolitan approaches to the treatment of labour mobility, the shape of services trade disciplines in the digital age and pro-competitive regulation in air transport are explored with a view to helping readers gain a better understanding of the forces shaping the changes. An essential read for all those concerned with the evolution of the rules-based trading system and its impact on the service economy. M A R I O N P A N I Z Z O N is Senior Research Fellow at the World Trade Institute, Berne. She specialises in international economic law, a field in which she publishes on subjects as diverse as intellectual property law, human rights and trade, services and sources of law. held the position of Director of Studies at the World Trade Institute until October 2007. Since November 2007, she has been working with the School of Management at Zurich University of Applied Sciences to prepare the launch of several new Master programmes. NICOLE POHL P I E R R E S A U V É is a faculty member and senior research fellow at the World Trade Institute in Berne where he directs a Swiss National Science Foundation project on the regulation of trade in services. He holds visiting professor appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the College of Europe in Bruges and at the University of Barcelona. GATS AND THE REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES Edited by MARION PANIZZON, NICOLE POHL and PIERRE SAUVÉ CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521896887 © Cambridge University Press 2008 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2008 ISBN-13 978-0-511-41422-0 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 hardback 978-0-521-89688-7 Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy