Editors
Contributors
Foreword
CHAPTER 1
International Economic Law and the Challenges of Economic Zones: An Introduction
Julien Chaisse & Jiaxiang Hu
CHAPTER 2
Success Factors and Required Policies for SEZs
Marc Proksch
CHAPTER 3
Investment, Regional Development and Compliance with Internal Market Rules in EU Free Zones: Challenges Ahead
Alessandro Spano
CHAPTER 4
A Special Economic Zone in the Brazilian Amazon Rain Forest: Progress and Hazards of the Manaus Free Trade Zone
Guilherme Vargas Castilhos
CHAPTER 5
India’s Experience with the SEZs: Status, Concerns and Way Forward
Arpita Mukherjee & Avantika Kapoor
CHAPTER 6
The Practice of the Reform of Administrative Approval System in Shanghai Free Trade Zone: Taking the Licenses and Permits Reform as a
Breakthrough Point
Hongzhen Jiang & Haonan Zhong
CHAPTER 7
Mitigating Inequality in the Development of SEZs in Asia: Risks, Rules and Recipes
Matthias Vanhullebusch
CHAPTER 8
Belt and Road Initiative: Economic Corridors, Transit Routes and SEZs – Exploring the Linkages Using the BBSP as a Case Study
Francisco José B. S. Leandro
CHAPTER 9
Special Economic Zones and the Perpetual Pluralism of Global Trade and Labor Migration
Stephen Kim Park
CHAPTER 10
The Law and Policy of Refugee Cities: SEZs for Migrants
Michael Castle-Miller
CHAPTER 11
SEZs under the WTO’s Scrutiny: Defining the Scope of Trade Issues
Sherzod Shadikhodjaev
CHAPTER 12
China’s Free Trade Zones in Its Post-WTO Accession ERA: A Case Study of Shanghai FTZ
Ting Han & Andrew D. Mitchell
CHAPTER 13
Recent Developments of Institutional Arbitration in China: Specialization, Digitalization and Internationalization
Jie (Jeanne) Huang
CHAPTER 14
How the SPC Serves National Strategy and “Makes Law”: The Pilot FTZ’s Opinion and Its Implications
Susan Finder
CHAPTER 15
UNCITRAL: Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform
Caroline Nicholas
CHAPTER 16
Goetz v. the Republic of Burundi I&II: How Foreign Investors Challenge ‘Free-Zone Regimes’
Olaoye Kehinde
CHAPTER 17
Investment Protection in China’s SEZs: Lee Jong Baek Case Study
Olga Boltenko
CHAPTER 18
Free-Zone Company, Investment Standards and the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Ampal-American and Others v. Egypt
Prabhash Ranjan
Index