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The interaction between trade and climate change law and policy : from potential conflict to mutual supportiveness
(Uiversity of the Western Cape, 2012)
This paper explores the relationship between trade and climate change regimes, the potential areas of conflict, and what can be done to promote mutual gains. Apart from exploring the key issues and examining the conceptual ...
The harmonisation of rules on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in the Southern African Customs Union
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The thesis considers the approaches followed by the European Union with the Brussels Regime, the federal system of the United States of America under the ‘full faith and credit clause’; the inter-state recognition scheme ...
The interaction between trade and climate change law and policy : from potential conflict to mutual supportiveness
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Trade and climate change intersect in many ways. Aside from the broad debate as to whether economic growth and trade adversely affect the environment, linkages are recognized between existing rules of the World Trade ...
The harmonisation of rules on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in the southern African customs union
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The Member States of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) have set as their objectives, amongst others, the facilitation of cross-border movement of goods between the territories of the Member States and the promotion ...
The world trade organisation (wto) and the organisation of petroleum exporting countries (opec) mandates: regulating production quotas, subsidies, and corruption in oil producing countries-an African perspective
(2014)
African countries are faced with the daunting task of providing a comprehensive
regulatory framework for their natural resources. This is at both the international and domestic level. The statement is particularly true ...
South frica’s non-ratification of the United Nations convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), wisdom or folly, considering the effect of the status quo on international trade
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG) seeks to provide a standard uniform law for international sales contracts. This research paper analyses the rationale behind South ...
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Millennium Development Goals: Can trade be the vehicle for achieving goal 8?
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The objective of this research was to examine how SADC states can attain goal 8 of the Millennium Development Goals set up by the international community through the United Nations in the year 2000, using trade under the ...
Towards a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI): implications for developing African countries
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
In most African countries the private sector provides the main impetus for economic growth, especially since countries started opening up their economics for foreign investment. Foreign investments have played an important ...
The feasibility of retaliation as a trade remedy under the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The main aim of the research was to determine the viability of retaliation as a trade remedy under the Dispute Settlement Understanding. It was to establish whether retaliation as a remedy is beneficial to the entire WTO ...