Introduction. Towards a common external economic policy of the European Union. The CCP as an exclusive competence of the EU : an EU Member State's perspective --. (National) constitutional law limitations on the advancement of the EU's common commercial policy. Common commercial policy in the European constitutional area : EU external trade competence and the Lisbon Decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court. You'll never walk alone : the European Union and its member states in the WTO. The new institutional framework of the CCP : new Functions and new powers for the European Parliament : assessing the changes of the common commercial policy from the perspective of democratic legitimacy. The common commercial policy under the influence of commission, council, high representative and European external action service. Trade policy under the Treaty of Lisbon. The normative framework of the CCP after Lisbon : linkage of the common commercial policy to the general objectives for the Union's external action. Common commercial policy after Lisbon : the European Union's dependence on secondary legislation. Changes in the common commercial policy of the European Union after the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon : a practitioner's perspective. Investment policy as a part of the CCP : the autonomy of the European legal order. Designing an international investor-to-state arbitration system after Opinion 1/09. Investment arbitration in the EU after Lisbon : selected procedural and jurisdictional issues. The new competence of the European Union in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) : a third country perspective.