Introduction: On Framing Convergence of the EU with the Global Legal Order Elaine FaheyPART IFRAMING EU GLOBAL CONVERGENCE1. The EU’s Free Trade and Investment Agreements: European Convergence with World Trade Law? Frank Hoff meister2. Convergence through EU Unilateralism Jed Odermatt3. Converging Dual-Use Export Control with Human Rights Norms: The EU’s Responses to Digital Surveillance Exports Machiko Kanetake4. The EU and International Investment Agreements: To Diverge is to Converge Mauro Gatti5. Epilogue: EU Global and Regional Convergence Michelle EganPART IIA GLOBAL LEGAL ORDER AGAINST CONVERGENCE?6. Resistances to Global Convergence Fernanda G Nicola7. EU and US Regulatory Coherence in TTIP – Similarities and Differences David Henig8. EU External Relations and International Law: Divergence on Questions of ‘Territory’? Paul James Cardwell and Ramses A Wessel9. The Global Compact on Migration: Convergence or Divergence with EU Policies? Juan Santos Vara and Laura Pascual Matellán10. Convergence and Divergence of the Principle of SolidarityMagdalena Forowicz11. Epilogue: The EU as a Selective and Conflicted Converger Gabriel Siles-BrüggePART IIIWHEN IS EU LAW AND POLICY MORE ‘INSIDE-OUT’ THAN ‘OUTSIDE-IN’?12. Regulatory Cooperation in EU FTAs: Linking Legalisation to Convergence Kornilia Pipidi-Kalogirou13. Labour Standards in EU-Mexico Trade: An Assessment along Two Narratives of Convergence Aakriti Bhardwaj and Jeff Kenner14. Global Convergence through EU Value Chain Regulation and Voluntary Standards Enrico Partiti15. The EU Equivalence Regime as a Mechanism of Convergence: Financial Regulation and EU Law Francesco Pennesi16. ‘A Deep Trade Agenda’: The Convergence of Trade and Fundamental Rights Isabella Mancini

This innovative interdisciplinary work examines four key themes within the concept of convergence of the EU in the global legal order: framing EU convergence; global trade against convergence; the EU as the exceptional internationalist; and positioning convergence through methodology.

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