Friday, July 3, 2020

Martinico & Wu: A Legal Analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative Towards a New Silk Road?

Giuseppe Martinico (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) & Xueyan Wu (Chongqing Univ.) have published A Legal Analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative Towards a New Silk Road? (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
What does the Belt and Road Initiative mean for the existing multilateral organisations? What can it represent for the future of the European Union in the long run? What is the role of hard and soft law in the functioning of the Initiative? What does it represent from a legal theory perspective? This book aspires to contribute to the international debate by gathering scholars with different backgrounds (legal theorists, public international lawyers, comparative lawyers) in a way that they can offer their inputs and observations concerning the Belt and Road Initiative.