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9 Amsterdam L.F. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/amslawf9 and id is 1 raw text is: AMSTERDAM LAW FORUM VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM Editorial In Transition The Amsterdam Law Forum Editorial Board Since December, Amsterdam Law Forum has welcomed a new board and enthusiastic team of editors. Together with these editors, we are working to restructure Amsterdam Law Forum, and re-establish its four annual publications. This year also marks the reintroduction of ALF's themed issue, which shall be published this summer to correspond with our annual conference. This year, we will be exploring the topic of 'the environment and international law'. This is an exciting subject that touches upon current international debates regarding the law and climate change, human rights and the environment and the prolonged environmental consequences of armed conflicts, among others. We look forward to receiving thought-provoking contributions related to this continuously timely and important topic. ALF's new board has made immense progress in revamping ALF as an organisation and preparing for the exciting year ahead. We are very pleased to present you with Amsterdam Law Forum's 2017 Winter Issue, the first publication of the ALF Board and Editor team. This issue reflects only a fragment of the work we as board have been carrying out over the past three months. However, it also serves as an introduction to a new Amsterdam Law Forum and sets the stage for the year we have planned. To complement the transition that ALF has made, this 2017 Winter Issue is fortunate to feature several articles relating to ongoing developments in international law, and the way that legal issues are evolving during periods of transition. Our first article is an intriguing scientific piece by Dr. Musa Njabulo Shongwe. Shongwe explores the increasing fragmentation of the multilateral trading system and evaluates whether regional trade agreements have conflicted with World Trade Organization (VTO) law. Shongwe finds that the phenomenal growth of regional trade agreements affects the WTO's core principle of non- discrimination and the coherence of international trade law. The article offers an in-depth observation of this fragmentation and presents the reader with an informative overview of WTO law, the proliferation of regionalism and the normative and institutional conflicts that arise when these different legal systems come into conflict. Shongwe suggests that convergence, rather than divergence, should be sought between regional agreements and WTO law and measures should be sought at all levels - national, regional and multilateral - to do so. The second contribution to this publication is a scientific article by Vasil Stoynov, a post-graduate student in Business, Competition and Regulatory Law in Berlin. Stoynov's article addresses an integral feature of international agreements concluded by the European Union: their direct effect. With a focus on bilateral

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