Niall Moran - Engagement Between Trade and Investment : The Role of PTIAs

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This book began as a doctoral thesis, which I defended at Bocconi University, Milan, and was completed during my first year working as a Lecturer at Middlesex University, London. The completion of this book would not have been possible without the encouragement and guidance of my PhD supervisor, colleagues, friends and family during these years.

Firstly, I would like to express my gratitude to my mentor Professor Giorgio Sacerdoti for supervising my thesis and bringing me to Italy with his unique PhD programme in International Economic Law. Your insights shaped and improved my thesis over the course of four and a half years and gave me the belief that it would one day be a book. Thank you.

I am deeply indebted to Professors Claudio Dordi, Anna de Luca and Yane Svetiev for their comments on my thesis as well as the courses I took with them in WTO law and EU economic law during the PhD programme. Other Professors or Visiting Professors at Bocconi have contributed in different ways to the completion of this book. In particular, I would like to thank Professors Alec Stone Sweet, Jrgen Kurtz, Damiano Canale, Leonardo Borlini, Giovanna Adinolfi, Donato Masciandaro, John J. Donohue and Piero Stanig. A special thanks is also due to Professor Andr Sapir for his classes and welcoming me as a Visiting Researcher at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles in 2016.

I would also like to thank my former Heads of Unit Jean-Marc Trarieux and Ieva Lejasisaka for their encouragement with my thesis and for providing me with a working environment that was both incredibly stimulating and that added to the work of this book. Writing a book on Preferential Trade and Investment Agreements seems all the more urgent when you have emerged from a period negotiating one and my time working on the negotiation of TTIP and Mercosur remains a highlight of my professional career. I would like to thank my former colleagues at the Commission Jean Ferrire, Raimondo Serra, Fabienne Alcaraz, Francesco Meggiolaro, Magdalena Miskiewicz, Carlos Coronas-Balsera and Veronica Corella Gomez; as well as my former colleagues at the Council Francis Mangan, Nelius Carey, Jennifer Pickering, Nic Taylor, rla N Chuilleanin, Tom Stubbs and Risn Healy. I was privileged to be able to complete this book while lecturing at Middlesex University, London. I am especially grateful to Professor Laurent Pech for his encouragement of this book and fine stewardship of the School of Law. I am also grateful to my trade law colleagues at Middlesex, Professors Lijun Zhao and Damjan Kukovec, as well as Professor Anthony Cullen, for all of their help and support.

I have had many brilliant teachers over the years and would like to thank Conor Doherty and Paul Bermingham in particular, who taught me so much and are truly two of the best. I would also like to thank Anna-Louise Hinds for introducing me to international trade law during my undergraduate degree and Letizia Raschella-Sergi for her course in WTO law during my LLM.

Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends, for being there for me during these years. To my parents, Enda and Eileen, this book is dedicated to you. To my brother, Thomas and to Alexandra, thank you. To all my friends, in particular, Shane, Phil, Conor, Michael, Shaun and Gethin, thank you.

International trade and investment are two of the core pillars of international economic law and interaction between these two regimes is examined in this book. As international trade and investment increase in volume and complexity, so too do the demands on the international legal order to put effective rules and enforcement procedures governing the regimes in place.