China's Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law
Global Law and Sustainable Development Series

This volume examines the range of Non-Trade Concerns (NTCs) that may conflict with international economic rules and proposes ways to protect them within international law and international economic law. Globalization without local concerns can endanger relevant issues such as good governance, human rights, right to water, right to food, social, economic, cultural and environmental rights, labor rights, access to knowledge, public health, social welfare, consumer interests and animal welfare, climate change, energy, environmental protection and sustainable development, product safety, food safety and security. Focusing on China, the book shows the current trends of Chinese law and policy towards international standards. The authors argue that China can play a leading role in this context: not only has China adopted several reforms and new regulations to address NTCs; but it has started to play a very relevant role in international negotiations on NTCs such as climate change, energy, and culture, among others. While China is still considered a developing country, in particular from the NTCs? point of view, it promises to be a key actor in international law in general and, more specifically, in international economic law in this respect. This volume assesses, taking into consideration its special context, China?s behavior internally and externally to understand its role and influence in shaping NTCs in the context of international economic law.

Forewords by: Professor Gianmaria Ajani, H. E. the Minister Gian Luca Galletti, Professor Gabrielle Marceau, H. E. the Minister Maurizio Martina

1. Introduction and Overview of theBook - Paolo Davide Farah

2. The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO

Multilateral Trading System through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns: An Appraisal on China’s Progress - Paolo Davide Farah

Part I: Public Policy, International Trade & Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of States & Non State Actors in Economic Globalization

3. Economic Globalization and Social Rights: the Role of the International Labor Organization and the WTO - Claudio Di Turi

4. Multinational Corporations and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Chinese Context: An International Law Perspective - Angelica Bonfanti

5. Rights Interest Litigation, Socio-Economic Rights and Chinese Labor Law Reform - Leïla Choukroune

6. Law, Culture, and the Politics of Chinese Outward Foreign Investment - Valentina Sara Vadi

7. Chinese Investment in Africa: Strengthening the Balance Sheet - Mark Klaver and Michael Trebilcock

Part II: Sustainable Development, Environmental Protection and Climate Change

8. Soft, Complex and Fragmented International Climate Change Practice: What Implications for International Trade Law? - Francesco Sindico, Julie Gibson

9. The Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities in the International Regime of Climate Change - Imad Ibrahim, Thomas Deleuil, Paolo Davide Farah

10. The Kyoto Protocol: Carbon Pricing and Trade Prospects. The Clean Development Mechanism from the Perspective of the Developing Countries - Marion Lemoine

11. The Role of Domestic Policies in Fostering Technology Transfer: Evidence fromChina - Elena Cima

12. China's Environmental Legislation and Its Trend Towards Scientific Development - He Weidong

13. Research on the Reform of the Judicial Relief System for Environmental Disputes in China - Luo Li

14. The Impact of the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC on Chinese Law and the Consequential Reforms to Fight Climate Change - Carla Peng

15. The Development of NGOs in China: A Case Study on Their Involvement with Climate Change - Zhixiong Huang

16. A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks - Paolo Farah, Riccardo Tremolada

Part III: Fundamental Rights and Cultural Diversity

17. Understanding Non-Trade Concerns through Comparative Chinese and European Philosophy of Law - Jean Yves Heurtebise

18. The Right to Food in International Law and WTO Law: An Appraisal - Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani

19. The Right to Food in China: Cultural Foundation, Present and Future - Ning Libiao

20. Projections of China’s Food Security to 2030: Obligations as an Agricultural Superpower - James R. Simpson

21. China and the Recognition and Protection of the Human Right to Water - Roberto Soprano

22. China Meets Hollywood at WTO: Janus’ Faces of Freedom. Standards of Right and Wrong between National and International Moralities - Christophe Germann

23. Cultural Products and the WTO: China's Domestic Censorship and Media Control Policies - Rogier Creemers

24. Trade in Audiovisuals – The Case of China - Anselm Kamperman Sanders

25. Rise and Demise of US Social Media in China. A Touchstone of WTO and BIT Regulations - Danny Friedmann

26. Can Trade Restrictions Be Justified by Moral Values? Revisiting The Seals Disputes Through a Law and Economics Analysis - Julien Chaisse & Xinjie Luan

Part IV: Public Health, Product and Food Safety, Consumers Protection

27. Health Protection Measures as Barriers to EU Exports to China in the Framework of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - Denise Prévost

28. SPS, Public Health and Environmental Provisions in East Asia RTAs: ASEAN and China - Lorenzo Di Masi

29. Product Safety in the Framework of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade - Lukasz Gruszczynski, Tivadar Otvoes, Paolo Davide Farah

30.Non-Trade Concerns and Consumer Protection in China: SurroundingIssues - Piercarlo Rossi

31.Legal Protection of Consumers in Developing Countries: An Asian Perspective - A. Rajendra Prasad

32.From Remedy of Damage to Risk Prevention. An Analysis of the New Legislative Implications of the Chapter on "Product Liability" in China’s Tort Liability Law from the Perspective of Consumer Protection - Hu Junhong

33. Tort Liability for the Compensation of Damages Caused by Dangerous Substances in China - Nadia Coggiola

34.The Protection of Biotechnological Innovation by Patent in the United States, Europe, France, and China. A Comparative Study from the Perspective of the TRIPs Agreement - Shujie Feng, Xin Shu & Ningning Zhang

35.Public Health, Intellectual Property Rights, and Developing Countries’ Access to Medicines - Jayashree Watal

36.The Relationship between the TRIPs Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folk Protection from a Chinese Perspective - Jianqiang Nie

37. Grasping Knowledge in Emerging Markets: is this the case of Western Pharmaceutical Companies in China? - Francesca Spigarelli, Andrea Filippetti

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Paolo Davide Farah teaches climate change, trade, energy, and environmental law and policy at West Virginia University, USA. He has variously taught classes on public international law, international economic law and WTO law, European law, Comparative law, and Chinese law in Italy, United Kingdom, USA, China, and other countries. He was a Visiting Scholar for the academic year 2011–2012 at Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies Program and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA. He is Director of Research of gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (www.glawcal.org.uk) and is Principal Investigator for EU Commission research projects in collaboration with European, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese universities. He is an expert in the interaction between trade, economic globalization, and NTCs, such as sustainable development, energy, environment, and human rights, with a special focus on China and other Asian countries. He has previously worked as an intern at the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization in Geneva and was an Associate Lawyer of Baker and McKenzie Law Firm, Milan, Italy. He graduated with a Maitrise in International and European Law from Paris Ouest La Defense Nanterre University (France), LLM in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium), and a Dual PhD in international law from Aix-Marseille University (France) and University of Milan (Italy).

Elena Cima, PhD candidate in international law at the Graduate Institute of International Law and Development Studies in Geneva, where she also works for the LLM Program in International Law. Her research interests include public international law, international trade law, international environmental law, energy law, and Chinese law. She is a member of the American branch of the International Law Association (ILA), fo