The Law Of Mercosur

Description

The Law of MERCOSUR presents both an overview and in-depth analysis of one of the world’s most important and increasingly influential economic organisations. The book comprises both a series of first-hand analyses of MERCOSUR by experts from countries in the MERCOSUR bloc, and also discussions from other parts of the world looking at MERCOSUR as global actor of ever-increasing importance. The book is divided into three main parts: the first analyses the key institutional legal aspects of MERCOSUR, looking at its history, the general theory of economic integration, and basic aspects relating to the functioning of MERCOSUR; the second examines specialised topics, including the regulation of the environment, human rights and the energy market in MERCOSUR; and in the third part the editors offer a translation of core MERCOSUR instruments, with the objective of furthering understanding of the economic bloc. Original in its conception, the book aims to fill a major gap in the English-language literature by offering a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the Law of MERCOSUR, and it is hoped that it will become essential reading for those practitioners and academics who are interested not only in MERCOSUR, but in economic integration generally, in international trade, and in the regional aspects of the phenomenon of globalisation.

Editors Biography

Marcílio Franca is Professor of Public Law at the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil) and Prosecutor at the Prosecution Office at the Audit Court of Paraíba (Brazil). Post-doctor (European University Institute, Florence, 2008, Calouste Gulbenkian Post-Doctoral Fellow), Doctor (University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2006, FCT fellowship) and Master of Laws (Federal University of Paraíba , 1999). Member of the International Association of Constitutional Law, member of the International Society of Public Law, member of the Instituto Hispano-Luso-Americano de Derecho Internacional (IHLADI) and President of the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association. Former student (Gasthörer) at the Free University of Berlin (Germany), visiting trainee at the Court of Justice of the European Communities (Luxembourg), Legal Advisor of the United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) and the World Bank (PFMCBP/Timor). Coordinator of LABIRINT – International Laboratory of Investigations into Transjuridicity (UFPB).

Lucas Lixinski is Professor at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney, Australia.

María Belén Olmos Giupponi is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Liverpool Hope University.