Während des Forschungsaufenthaltes am Lauterpacht Center for International Law der Universität Cambridge sprach Prof. Huck am 1.7.2019 über das Thema:

„Claims on Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in FTAs for Groups and Individuals: Equilibrating with Fairness”.

Folgende Aspekte wurden behandelt:

1. Vertical and horizontal impact of the Global Agenda 2030 and the SDGs in an evolving multi-layered transnational system
2. The Rise of FTAs/RTAs as one pattern of an ongoing globalisation
3. Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in modern FTAs - Characteristics in- and outside the EU
4. Asymmetric procedural rights of individuals and groups affected through trade (and investment as well)
5. Impact of an holistic approach of the SDGs on modern FTAs - or just combining different and mostly separated layers of labour, environment, human rights and development?
6. Main characteristics of third party involvement in existing FTAs/RTAs: USMCA (2018), UK - Cariforum (2019) and EU-FTAs
7. Impediments on the domestic court level arguing on a broader and international level? - Reconciliation based on SDGs?
8. Creating a theoretical approach towards access for individuals and groups to intervene as a third party
9. Preliminary conclusions

Das Lauterpacht Center for International Law ist ein Forschungszentrum der Rechtsfakultät der Universität Cambridge:

• https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/
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