Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Christoph Bail, Robert Falkner and Helen Marquard (eds), The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment and Development?
Lyuba Zarsky (ed.) , Human Rights and the Environment, Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World
Eric Neumayer , Greening Trade and Investment: Environmental Protection without Protectionism
Rosalind Reeve , Policing International Trade in Endangered Species: The CITES Treaty and Compliance
Nicolas de Sadeleer , Environmental Principles: From Political Slogans to Legal Rules
Peter Ehlers, Elisabeth Mann-Borgese, Rüdiger Wolfrum, Cristina Hoß (eds), Marine Issues: From a Scientific, Political and Legal Perspective
Geir Honneland and Anne-Kristin Jorgensen , Implementing International Environmental Agreements in Russia     

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article
Overcoming National Barriers to International Waste Trade: A New Perspective on the Transnational Movements of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes, Elli Louka
The Peaceful Management of Trans-boundary Resources, Blake, Hilldesley, Pratt, Ridley & Schofield (eds.)
The North American Free Trade Agreement - A Comprehensive Guide, Jon R Johnson
Le droit communautaire et les dechets, Nicolas de Sadeleer
A Source Book of European Community Environmental Law, Richard Macrory and Steve Hollins
Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Volume 5, 1994, Gunther Handl (ed.)     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewd:
Lasse Ringius, Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea
John M. Bunzl, The Simultaneous Policy: An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet
Lisa L. Martin and Beth A. Simmons, (eds.) International Institutions: An International Organization Reader
Rex J. Zedalis, International Energy Law: Rules Governing Future Exploration, Exploitation and Use of Renewable Resources
Edith Brown Weiss and John H. Jackson, (eds.) Reconciling Environment and Trade     

Interpretación de normas internacionales de distintos ordenamientos bajo el acuerdo de obstáculos técnicos al comercio de la OMC

This study gives evidence through the International Comparative Law, two rules that come from standardization bodies of different nature, such as standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and ASTM International (ASTM International), which are recognized in the international trade and domestic trade, but it plays erratically, being in some significant cases and not in others mandatory. Thus constituting real technical barriers to trade through discriminatory criteria, contrary to the provisions and spirit of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), of which Mexico, the U.S. and Canada are also part.     

Book Reviews

International and European Trade and Environmental Law After the Uruguay Round , Ernst–Ulrich Petersmann
International Management of Hazardous Wastes: The Basel Convention and Related Legal Rules , Katharina Kummer
Politics of Climate Change: A European Perspective , Tim O'Riordan and Jill Jäger (eds.)
The Emerging International Regime for Climate Change: Structures and Options After Berlin , Michael Grubb and Dean Anderson (eds.)
The International Court of Justice 1946-1996 , Arthur Eyffinger
From Care to Action: Making a Sustainable World , Martin Holdgate
Slow Reckoning: The Ecology of a Divided Planet , Tom Athanasiou     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Philippe Sands (eds), Reflections on International Law, the International Court of Justice and Nuclear Weapons
Christopher C. Joyner, Governing the Frozen Commons – The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection
Ian H. Rowlands (ed), Climate Change Cooperation in Southern Africa
Theodore Panayotou, Instruments for Change, Motivating and Financing Sustainable Development
Jonathan Krueger, International Trade and the Basel Convention     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Barry Barton et al. (eds), Energy Security: Managing Risk in a Dynamic Legal and Regulatory Environment
Scott Barrett, Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making
Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Milena Szuniewicz (eds), Exploitation of Natural Resources in the Twenty-First Century
Ved P. Nanda and George Pring, International Environmental Law and Policy for the Twenty-First Century
K. Bastmeijer, The Antarctic Environmental Protocol and its Domestic Legal Implementation
Kevin P. Gallagher and Jacob Werksman (eds), The Earthscan Reader on International Trade & Sustainable Development
Xue Hanqin, Transboundary Damage in International Law     

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W.Burhenne, International Environmental Law: Multilateral Treaties
Peter Wetterstein, Harm to the Environment: The Right to Compensation and the Assessment of Damages
Jonas Ebbesson, Review of Compatability of International and National Environmental Law
Simon C. S. Tay and Daniel C. Esty, Asian Dragons and Green Trade: Environment, Economics and International Law
Jan M. van Dunne, Non-Point Source River Pollution – The Case of the River Meuse: Technical, Legal, Economics and International Law
Bridget M. Hutter, Compliance: Regulation and Environment
Amanda Wolf, Quotas in International Environmental Agreements
Michel Prieur, Le droit à l'information en matière d'environment dans les pays de l'Union Européenne
Michael Fry (ed.), A Manual of Nature Conservation Law and A Manual of Environmental Protection Law     

试论跨国公司的社会责任

As for international direct investment, the transnational corporations are playing a leading role in the fields of international trade, international investment and international intellectual property. In theory and reality, this authors analyze the rationale of the social responsibilities taken by transnational corporations, the main problems in the social responsibilities of transnational corporations and the legislative status, and put forward the functions of the social responsibilities of transnational corporations in promotion of the legal construction of socialist market economy, the reform of the corporate governance and the development of transnational corporations in China. Wang Chuanli, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of China University of Political Science and Law, Vice-chairman of China Society of International Economic Law, and Vice-chairman of Research Institute of WTO Law (China Law Society), also Arbitrator of China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission and Beijing Arbitration Commission. Her main publications are “The Legal Effectiveness of Foreign Economic Contracts”, “International Trade Law of Sales of Goods”, “International Protection of Intellectual Property Rights” and “International Trade Law Government Control on Business”. Moreover, she has published over ten influential discourses on international economic law. In addition, her ongoing research projects include WTO Agriculture Agreement and the Rules of International Agri-products Trade, WTO and International Core labor Standards, and the Role of Judicial Independence of European Court of Justice to Promote the Integration of Europe.     

Book Reviews

Ben Boer, Ross Ramsay and Donald R. Rothwell, International Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific
Marian Chertow and Daniel Esty (eds), Thinking Ecologically: the Next Generation of Environmental Policy
William Lesser, Sustainable Use of Genetic Resources under the Convention on Biological Diversity – Sharing Issues
Damien Geradin, Trade and the Environment: A Comparative Study of EC and US Law
Neil Hawke and Nadia Kovaleva, Agri-Environmental Law and Policy
Thiomas M. Franck, Fairness in International Law and Institutions
Jenny Steele and Tim Jowell (eds), Law in Environmental Decision-Making     

The genie in the bottle: The international regulation of genetically modified organisms

Abstract

This paper describes the circumstances surrounding charges laid against a retail vendor of Traditional Asian Medicinals under Canada's Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act (WAPPRI‐ITA). The vendor was charged with selling a product containing species listed as Appendix I under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).     

Book Reviews

Antonio Hill, Locality and Identity: Environmental Issues in Law and Society
Ian Fry, Yearbook of International Environmental Law 1998
Augustine Njamnshi, The Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Sustainable Development 1999/2000
R.V. Anuradha, The Commercial Use of Biodiversity
Carolina Lasén Díaz, Intellectual Property Rights, Trade and Biodiversity
Silvia Schikhof, The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity
Paulo Amaral and Michael Redclift, Marine Specially Protected Areas: The General Aspects and the Mediterranean Regional System
David Grimeaud, The Transition to Sustainability: The Politics of Agenda 21 in Europe
Norman J. Vig, Environmental Policy in the European Union
David Grimeaud, Droit Européen de l'Environnement     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Tim O'Riordan and Susanne Stoll-Kleemann (eds), Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities – Protecting beyond the Protected.
Dawn Chatty and Marcus Colchester (eds), Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development.
Salman M.A. Salman and Kishor Uprety , Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers: A Legal Perspective.
Carolyn L. Deere and Daniel C. Esty (eds), Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade.
Joseph Szarka , The Shaping of Environmental Policy in France.
Philippe Sands , Principles of International Environmental Law.
Richard O. Brooks , Ross Jones and Ross A. Virginia , Law and Ecology: The Rise of the Ecosystem Regime.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this Article
Nauru: Environmental Damage Under International Trusteeship, Christopher Weeramantry
Civil Liability for Waste, Peter v. Wilmowsky & Gerhard Roller
The Earth Summit: The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Introduction and commentary by Stanley P. Johnson
Earth Summit'92, The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro 1992, Joyce Quarrie (ed.)
Trade and Environment: Conflicts and Opportunities
Environmental Law, Simon Ball & Stuart Bell     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Sara Oldfield (ed.), The Trade in Wildlife – Regulation for Conservation
Michael Bothe and Peter H. Sand (eds), La politique de l'environnement – De la réglementation aux instruments économiques/ Environmental Policy – From Regulations to Economic Instruments
Arie Trouwborst , Evolution and Status of the Precautionary Principle in International Law
Tuomas Kuokkanen , International Law and the Environment: Variations on a Theme
Göran Sundqvist , The Bedrock of Opinion: Science, Technology and Society in the Siting of High-Level Nuclear Waste
Anil Markandya and Kirsten Halsnæs (eds), Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Prospects for Developing Countries
Thomas B. Fischer , Strategic Environmental Assessment in Transport and Land Use Planning     

The International Law Commission's Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Cecurity of Mankind: An appraisal of the substantive provisions

This article is an expanded and updated version of a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law in Canberra, Australia, May 28–30, 1993.The authors served as International Legal Consultants to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the International Law Commission's Draft Code of Crimes against the Peace and Security of Mankind. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and not of the Australian government.     

全球化与香港法律服务

借着上海主办世博会的良机，香港律政司联同香港贸易发展局、香港大律师公会、香港律师会、香港国际仲裁中心以及国际商会国际仲裁院举办此次以“香港法律服务——环球视野”为主题的“论坛”，目的是希望向内地的企业和法律界介绍香港的法律和仲裁专业的优势及最新情况，与内地同行分享我们的经验，以及共同探索进一步加强合作的途径。     

Commons committee calls for more leadership and resources to fight AIDS in Africa

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade issues a report that concludes that the magnitude and urgency of the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa requires additional action and resources from the federal government.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government . By Archibald Cox . Judicial Politics in West Germany: A Study of the Federal Constitutional Court . By Donald P. Kommers . An Outline of the Law of Contract . By G. H. Treitel . Foundations of the Law of Tort . By Glanville Williams and B. A. Hepple . The English Law of Torts —A Comparative Introduction . By R. W. M. Dias and B. S. Markesinis . The “Conflicts ” Process : Jurisdiction and Choice in Private International Law . By David C. Jackson . Family Law and Litigation in Basotho Society . By Sebastian Poulter . Essays on the Law of International Trade . Hague -Zagreb Colloquium . Taxation for Executors and Trustees . Fourth Edition by A. R. Mellows .     

《见索即付保函统一规则》和《国际备用信用证惯例》之比较

见索即付保函和国际备用信用证作为国际结算和担保的重要形式,在国际金融、国际租赁和国际贸易及经济合作中应用十分广泛。二者功能接近,有人甚至将其等同。由于二者分别适用不同的国际惯例,所以准确把握国际惯例的相似与区别,不但有助于在实际工作中的正确运用,促进国际经贸的开展,也有利于保护有关当事人的合法权益。故本文试对之作一比较分析。