List of contributors -- Foreword -- Disclaimer and acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- An introduction to domestic regulation and GATS / Aik Hoe Lim and Bart De Meester -- Impediments to services trade, regulatory theory and principles -- Why regulate? : an overview of the rationale and purpose behind regulation / Tinne Heremans -- Domestic regulation : what are the costs and benefits for international trade in services? / Hildegunn Kyvik Nords -- Legal perspectives on WTO principles and domestic regulations -- Reasonableness, impartiality and objectivity / Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon -- . balancing legal certainty with regulatory flexibility / Markus Krajewski -- Who's afraid of necessity? : and why it matters? / Panagiotis Delimatsis -- Mutual recognition of services regulation at the WTO / Joel P. Trachtman -- Case-studies -- Legal services in the United States / Erica Moeser and Laurel Terry -- Telecommunications reform in China : fostering competition through state intervention / Henry Gao -- Information communication technology : the Mauritian experience of regulation and reform / Krishna Oolun -- Regulation of postal services in a changing market environment : lessons from Australia and elsewhere / Siva Somasundram and Iain Sandford -- Mobile money services provision in East Africa : the Ugandan experience / Joan Apecu, Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo and Yusuf Atiku Abdalla -- Financial services liberalization and regulation in Japan : implications for future negotiation on market access and domestic regulations / Masamichi Kono, Koichi Iwai and Yoshitaka Sakai -- Domestic regulations in Malaysia's higher education sector / Tham Siew Yean and Nik Ahmad Kamal Nik Mahmod -- Domestic regulations and India's trade in health services : a study of hospital and telemedicine services / Rupa Chanda and Pralok Gupta -- Operating integrated logistics services in a fragmented regulatory environment : what is the cost? / Ruosi Zhang -- Domestic regulation of retail food distribution services in Israel : the missing link between food prices and social protest / Tomer Broude and Lior Herman -- Regulatory impact analysis : addressing the trade and regulatory nexus / Darrell Porter and Lauren Wight -- Concluding remarks -- Services liberalization, negotiations and regulation : some lessons from the gats experience / Hamid Mamdouh -- Addressing the domestic regulation and services trade interface : reflections on the way ahead / Aik Hoe Lim and Bart De Meester -- Abbreviations -- Index.