Contributor biographies; Foreword Andrew Lang; Preface; List of acronyms; Part I. The Concept of the Embedded Liberalism Compromise: 1. Introduction to the embedded liberalism compromise Gillian Moon and Lisa Toohey; 2. The embedded liberalism compromise in the making of the GATT and Uruguay Round Agreements Meredith Kolsky Lewis; 3. The embedded liberalism compromise as touchstone in times of political turmoil Lisa Toohey; 4. Universal human rights in the embedded liberalism compromise Gillian Moon; 5. Recalibrating the embedded liberalism compromise: 'legitimate expectations' and international economic law Chios Carmody; Part II. The Dynamic of the Embedded Liberalism Compromise: 6. From agriculture to food security: embedded liberalism and stories of regulatory failure Fiona Smith; 7. Embedded liberalism and national treatment: the case of Taiwan's Mijiu taxation Hsu-Hua Chou and Weihuan Zhou; 8. Embedded liberalism and international investment agreements: the future of the right to regulate, with reflections on WTO law Catharine Titi; 9. Regulatory coherence in future free trade agreements and the idea of the embedded liberalism compromise Andrew D. Mitchell and Elizabeth Sheargold; Part III. Engineering the Embedded Liberalism Compromise: Addressing the Future in Times of Turmoil: 10. Embedded liberalism as a framework for description, critique and advocacy: the case of human rights measures under the GATT Rachel Harris; 11. Embedded liberalism and global business: domestic stability versus corporate autonomy? Justine Nolan and Gillian Moon; 12. The embedded liberalism compromise and cultural policy measures. Maintaining cultural diversity alongside WTO law Franziska Sucker; 13. The WTO's purpose, regulatory autonomy and the future of the embedded liberalism compromise Emily Reid.