The Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement

Marc Bungenberg and Andrew Mitchell, Introduction.-  Jürgen Bröhmer, Existing Legal and Political Relations Between the EU, its Member States, and Australia.- Michael Hahn, The Framework of Bilateral Trade Agreements.- Charlotte Sieber-Gasser, Services Trade Liberalisation in the Australia - EU FTA: Progress but no Quantum-Leap.- Neha Mishra, Digital Trade in the Australia - EU FTA: A Future-Forward Perspective.- Jarrod Hepburn, Investment Screening and Market Access in the AEUFTA.- Angshuman Hazarika, Panel Procedures under the proposed EU-Australia FTA.- Esmé Shirlow, Investment Protection in the AEUFTA: Missed Opportunities or Strategic Exclusions?.- Mareike Fröhlich, The Competition Chapter in the EU-Australia FTA.- Philipp Reinhold, European Trade Policy and the Regulation of Subsidies: What can we expect from the EU-Australia FTA?.

Marc Bungenberg is Director of the Europa-Institut and a professor of public law, European law and public international law at Saarland University in Germany (since 2015), visiting professor at the University of Lausanne/Switzerland (since 2011). He has taught at inter alia Sydney, Geneva, Lucerne, Lausanne, Taschkent, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich. He is the recipient of multiple research grants. He received his doctorate in law from the University of Hannover and wrote his habilitation treatise at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He holds an LL.M. from Lausanne University. His main fields of research are European (Common Commercial Policy, public procurement and state aid law) and international economic law, particularly international investment and WTO law.

Andrew Mitchell is Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, and a member of the Indicative List of Panelists to hear WTO disputes. He has previously practised law with Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters) and consults for States, international organisations and the private sector. Andrew has taught law in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, and the US. He is the recipient of five major grants from the Australian Research Council (including a Future Fellowship) and the Australian National Preventive Health Agency. Andrew has published over 140 academic books and journal articles and is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. He has law degrees from Melbourne, Harvard and Cambridge and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.