African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes

Auteur

James Thuo Gathii is Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship and Governor George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law, Albany Law School. He is author of War, Commerce and International Law (2010) and over 50 articles and book chapters.

Texte du rabat

Gathii authoritatively analyzes and evaluates the growing importance of regional trade integration in Africa and exposes its successes and failures.

Résumé
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the legal framework of African regional trade integration. It will fill a huge knowledge gap and serve as an invaluable teaching and research tool for policy makers in the public and private sectors, teachers, researchers and students of African trade and beyond.

Contenu

Introduction; 1. African RTAs as flexible legal regimes; 2. Variable geometry: a defining aspect of African RTAs; 3. Multiple memberships in African RTAs; 4. African RTAs in the context of Article XXIV of GATT; 5. Trade liberalization commitments and realization timeframes; 6. Financing African RTAs; 7. African RTA judiciaries; 8. Trade remedy regimes; 9. Monetary unions in Africa; 10. Intra-African regional trade integration; 11. African RTA relations with non-African RTAs.