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Toward a North American Legal System This page intentionally left blank Toward a North American Legal System EditedbyJamesT.McHugh towardanorthamericanlegalsystem Copyright©JamesT.McHugh,2012. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-1-137-26949-2 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2012by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-44397-0 ISBN 978-1-137-26950-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137269508 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData TowardaNorthAmericanlegalsystem/editedbyJamesT.McHugh. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-349-44397-0 1. Law—NorthAmerica—Internationalunification. 2. Law—NorthAmerica. I. McHugh,JamesT.,1961– KDZ88.T692012 349.7—dc23 2012017705 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:November2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents ListofTables vii Preface:ContemplatingaContinentalLegalFoundation ix RobertA.Pastor Introduction 1 JamesT.McHugh 1 AssessingtheProspectsofNorthAmericanLegal Harmonization 7 MatthewT.Simpson 2 HowtoThinkAboutLawinNorthAmerica 39 H.PatrickGlenn 3 TheConstitutionalPresencewithinNorthAmerica 57 JamesT.McHugh 4 LegalIntegrationofNAFTAthroughSupranational Adjudication 79 JayLawrenceWestbrook 5 NAFTAChapter11andtheHarmonizationofDomestic Practices 89 SusanL.Karamanian 6 TheStrictSubsidiarityPrincipleunderNAFTALawand Policy:ImplicationsforNorthAmericanTaxPolicy 125 ArthurJ.Cockfield 7 SingleMarketGovernance:LessonsfromtheEuropean Experience 149 MichelleEgan vi ● Contents 8 Conclusion:TheNAFTARegion—aViewfromtheCurrent MexicanAgenda 175 JoséAntonioCaballeroJuárez Contributors 183 Bibliography 187 Index 207 List of Tables 7.1 Combinesthefreemovements/freeestablishment(vertical axis)andthefourmarketfailures(incolumns2–5),which wouldhavetobeaddressedfortheIMtofunctionproperly (ThistableisadaptedfromPelkmans(2006).) 152 7.2 EUpolicyinstruments 155 7.3 Measurestoimproveimplementationandcompliance 162 This page intentionally left blank Preface: Contemplating a Continental Legal Foundation Robert A. Pastor Until the last decade of the twentieth century, “North America” was little more than a geographical expression, and there was even a question as to which countries fit within the definition. The decision by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1992 defined the region’s boundaries and lifted the “North Americaidea”beyondgeographyandeconomics. From NAFTA’s inception to the present, virtually all tariff and invest- mentbarriersweregraduallyeliminated,andacontinentalmarket—rivaling Europe’sorEastAsia’s—wascreated.ThemorevisionaryviewedNAFTAasa firstdraftofacontinentalconstitution;themorefearfulvieweditasaslippery slopetowardthedestructionofstatesovereignty. NAFTAgavetheregionaneconomicboost.From1994totheyear2001, NorthAmerica’sshareoftheworld’sgrossproductgrewfrom30to36per- cent,whileEurope’sremainedconstantat26percent.Tradeamongthethree countries tripled and foreign investment quintupled. Intra-regional exports as a percentage of total exports in North America climbed from 33 percent in 1980 to 56 percent in 2000, almost reaching the level of integration in Europe after five decades.1 National firms became North American. At the same time that businesses forged continental ties, more and more people of all three countries toured and immigrated to their neighbors. Americans traveled more to their neighbors than to any other countries, and the same appliedforMexicansandCanadians.Perhaps,themostprofoundtransforma- tion,however,stemmedfromthosewhomovedpermanently.Since1970,but intensifyingsinceNAFTA,thenumberofMexican-bornimmigrantslivingin theUnitedStatesincreasedbyafactorof17—to12.7million—representing aboutone-thirdofallimmigrants.2Societiesbecameinterwoven. Integrationproceededatsuchafastpacethatthegovernmentscouldnot keepup,andthatistheprincipalcontinentaldilemmatoday:thecontinental
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