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UACES members enjoy a variety of publishing opportunities. We invite everyone to write resource articles, that help others to advance their research and their academic profession. Our bookshop includes recently published books by our members and the Journal of Contemporary European Research is an open-access journal published by UACES in association with the UACES Graduate Forum.
Third-Party Claims Before the Multilateral Investment Court: Enhancing Third-Party Rights in Investment Treaty Arbitration (European Yearbook of International Economic Law)
This chapter examines the shortcomings of the ICS under CETA and the proposed MIC in safeguarding states’ regulatory autonomy and granting legal standing to third parties affected by foreign investment. The authors propose addressing these issues by introducing investor obligations through ESG clauses and allowing third parties to bring claims for breaches. They also consider potential challenges, including the impact on arbitration efficiency and limitations within public international law.
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Assessing the Post-Lisbon European Union’s System of Delegated Powers at Fifteen (Delegated Rulemaking in the European Union Fifteen Years Post- Lisbon: Law, Politics and Practice, European Journal of Risk Regulation)
The aim of this article and the ensuing Special Issue is to assess, après fifteen years, the effects on the EU legal and political system of the overhaul of executive delegated powers inaugurated by the Lisbon Treaty. It also puts forward seven overarching reflections revealing some of the core issues and challenges posed by the current stage of development of the post-Lisbon EU system of delegated powers.
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The Performance of Regionalism in the Global South
The book provides readily accessible, important, and novel information to students and scholars of political science, international relations, EU and European studies, peace and conflict studies, comparative regionalism, interregional and inter-organizational studies, and area studies, and persons interested in specific policy fields such as trade, security, or development policy.
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The Routledge-UACES Contemporary European Studies book series (CES) publishes first-rate research in European Union Studies. The Series Editors are particularly keen to encourage approaches that are interdisciplinary. CES seeks to publish excellent material from both established and new scholars.
(In)visible European Government
This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments.
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EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China
This book examines EU and US bilateral trade and investment relations with China, their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the ‘reciprocity gap’ in market openness.
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EU Trade Agreements and European Integration
The book argues that the Commission used these trade agreements, signed primarily with countries in Asia and Latin America, to advance European integration by ensuring that they became wider in scope and institutionally deeper by establishing ‘joint bodies’ – even in the face of resistance from member states in the Council of the European Union.
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Our Online Journal JCER
JCER is an open-access, online journal published by UACES in association with the Graduate Forum. We publish articles in the subject area of contemporary European studies. The Journal enables PhD students and early career researchers to disseminate their work alongside established scholars.