The BRICS-Lawyers' Guide to Global Cooperation

Explores the role of law in different areas of BRICS cooperation and the impact it can make on global governance.

Rostam J. Neuwirth (Edited by), Alexandr Svetlicinii (Edited by), Denis De Castro Halis (Edited by)

9781108416238, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 October 2017

408 pages, 10 b/w illus. 32 tables
23.5 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm, 0.7 kg

'Only on the basis of a legal foundation can BRICS continue its evolution towards an ever-more cooperative, interrelated, and ultimately maybe even integrated community of states. Pointing this out most clearly and providing illuminating and inspiring insight into the complexities of the BRICS realities, the book provides an invaluable resource and reference for scholars, practitioners, and anybody interested in international and global governance - under a political, an economic, and most importantly: a legal perspective.' Tim W. Dornis, European Review of Private Law

In the international trade and development arena, new and developing economies have created a block that is known as BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Initially conceived to drive global change through economic growth, the financial crisis and reversal of fortunes of the BRICS nations have raised questions about their ability to have an impact on the governance of global affairs. This book explores the role of law in various areas of BRICS cooperation including: trade, investment, competition, intellectual property, energy, consumer protection, financial services, space exploration and legal education. It not only covers the specifics of each of the BRICS nations in the selected areas, but also offers innovative and forward-looking perspectives on the BRICS cooperation and their contribution to the reform of the global governance networks. This is a unique reference book suitable for academics, government officials, legal practitioners, business executives, researchers and students.

Introduction
1. The enantiosis of BRICS: BRICS la[w]yers and the difference that they can make
2. Diversity and intra-BRICS trade: patterns, risks and potential
3. Defending trade multilateralism: the BRICS countries in the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Mechanism
4. The BRICS investment framework: catching up with trade
5. China-Africa and the BRICS: an insight into the development cooperation and investment policies
6. Global fragmentation of competition law and BRICS: adaptation or transformation?
7. Intellectual property negotiations, the BRICS factor and the changing North-South debate
8. BRICS in the emerging energy trade debate
9. The BRICS bank: on the edge of international economic law and the new challenges of twenty-first-century capitalism
10. The political economy challenges of financial regulation in BRICS economies: a case study of capital markets regulation in India
11. Contract law in the BRICS countries: a comparative approach
12. Consumer protection law in BRICS and their future cooperation
13. A dispute resolution centre for the BRICS?
14. Legal and policy aspects of space cooperation in the BRICS region: inventory, challenges and opportunities
15. For a BRICS agenda on culture and the creative economy
16. Making lawyers in BRICS: histories, challenges, and strategies for legal education reform.

Subject Areas: International economic & trade law [LBBM], International business [KJK], International trade [KCLT], International economics [KCL], Economics, finance, business & management [K]