The EU Deep Trade Agenda Law and Policy Oxford Studies in European Law Series

Providing the first comprehensive examination of the key regulatory disciplines included in the new generation of EU free trade agreements (FTAs), this book investigates the EU's supposed deep trade agenda through a legal analysis of these FTAs. In doing so, Billy A. Melo Araujo determines whether there is any substance behind the EU's foreign policy rhetoric regarding the need to introduce regulatory issues within the remit of international trade law. At a time when the EU is busily negotiating so-called 'mega-FTAs', such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), Melo Araujo offers a timely insight into the important questions raised by such FTAs, in particular concerning the future of the multilateral trade system, the loss of policy autonomy, and the democratic legitimacy of regulating through treaty-making. The book provides a detailed analysis of the regulatory disciplines included in the more recent EU FTAs and explores the possible implications of such disciplines. Offering a significant contribution to a wider debate, this is a must read for those interested in the legal dimension of the EU's deep trade agenda.

Dr. Billy Melo Araujo is a lecturer at the School of Law of Queen's University Belfast where he teaches EU Constitutional Law and EU Internal Market Law. He holds law degrees from King's College, London (PhD), the University of Warwick (LLM), and the Universite Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve (LLB). He previously worked as a solicitor in Brussels, where his practice focused on Belgian corporate law and EU law, and later as an intern at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat in Geneva.