Trading Fish, Saving Fish The Interaction between Regimes in International Law [Hardcover]

Margaret Young outlines how efforts to avert the global fisheries crisis necessitate a new understanding of international law.The worldwide crisis in fisheries provokes diverse legal responses. Trade measures and species protection now accompany more established management efforts under the law of the sea. Yet international law is ill-equipped to address institutional diversity and normative fragmentation. Practical engagement with overlapping legal regimes and new theoretical conceptions are needed.The worldwide crisis in fisheries provokes diverse legal responses. Trade measures and species protection now accompany more established management efforts under the law of the sea. Yet international law is ill-equipped to address institutional diversity and normative fragmentation. Practical engagement with overlapping legal regimes and new theoretical conceptions are needed.Addressing the problem of institutional fragmentation in the international legal order, this book focuses on fisheries-management issues in relation to three interacting global regimes: the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).Part I. Trading Fish, Saving Fish: 1. Introduction; 2. Relevant laws and institutions: an overview; Part II. Selected Case-Studies: 3. The negotiation of WTO rules on fisheries subsidies; 4. The restriction of trade in endangered marine species; 5. Adjudicating a fisheries import ban at the WTO; Part III. Towards Regime Interaction: 6. From fragmentation to regime interaction; 7. A legal framework for regime interaction; 8. Implications for international law.'& a beautifully written work based on extremely thorough research which effectively opens a new area of scholarship to the academe & Anyone interested in the issues of fragmentation, coherence and interaction in international law must read this book and many will wish to pick up the rl£¡