Discusses NAFTA in the context of the World Trade Organization; compares NAFTA to European Union integration; provides European and Japanese perspectives on the NAFTA.

Bruce A. Ackerman and David Golove, Is NAFTA Constitutional? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

 Reprinted from: 108 Harvard Law Review 799 (1995). Examines the manner in which NAFTA was approved by simple majorities of the House and Senate. This procedure is a departure from the rules governing the ratification of treaties, which require the consent of 2/3rds of the Senate.

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Judith H. Bello et al., eds.  The North American Free Trade Agreement, a new frontier in international trade and investment in the Americas. Washington, D.C. : Section of International Law and Practice, the American Bar Association and the International Lawyer, 1994.

 A collection of essays analyzing key aspects of the NAFTA and of the U.S. legislation that implements it: rules of origin, customs procedures, energy, intellectual property, etc.

Barry P. Bosworth et al., eds., Coming together?: Mexico-U.S. relations. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997.
 A collection of essays on U.S.-Mexican trade, environmental issues, immigration and drug trafficking. Available online at: http://brookings.nap.edu/books/0815710275/html/index.html.

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María Elena Cardero, ed., Qué ganamos y qué perdimos con el TLC [What do we gain and what do we lose with the TLC?]. Mexico: XXI Siglo Veintiuno editores, 1996.

 A collection of essays; assessment of the NAFTA/TLC from the Mexican perspective, in Spanish.

Rodolfo Cruz Miramontes, El TLC: controversias, soluciones y otros temas conexos. Mexico: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

 I Medidas generales en la solución de conflictos, II Medidas especiales en la solución de conflictos, III Acuerdos paralelos, IV Otros temas.

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Khosrow Fatemi and Dominick Salvatore, eds. The North American Free Trade Agreement. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Elsevier Science Inc., 1994.

 A collection of essays, written before U.S. ratification and rewritten to reflect ratification/adoption.

Ralph H. Folsom, NAFTA in a nutshell. St. Paul: West Group, 1999.

 Appendices contain the complete text of the NAFTA and of the labor and environmental side agreements. The text covers from pre-NAFTA to a discussion of the Free Trade Area of  the Americas/FTAA.  For more detail, see NAFTA law and business and Understanding NAFTA and its international business implications, below.

Ralph H. Folsom and W. Davis Folsom, eds., NAFTA law and business. Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1999

 Single-volume looseleaf analyzing NAFTA law and business via case studies. Part One reviews pre-NAFTA attempts at economic integration; Part Two covers NAFTA itself;  Part Three examines the side agreements; Part Four focuses on doing business under NAFTA. Appendices contain the complete text of the NAFTA and of the labor and environmental side agreements.

Ralph H. Folsom and W. Davis Folsom, Understanding NAFTA and its international business implications. New York: Matthew Bender/Irwin, 1996.

 The book is written for students of business and law, executives, government officers and lawyers. It reviews relations among the parties prior to NAFTA, the NAFTA agreement itself, and its implications.

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Steven Globerman and Michael Walker, eds., Assessing NAFTA: a trinational analysis. Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 1993.

 A collection of essays, content of the proposed NAFTA; research program of Fraser Institute, Americas Program, Hudson Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Political Economy Research Center, El Colegio de Mexico and university economists.

Luis Gonzalez Souza, Soberania heride. México, D.F.: Editorial Nuestro Tiempo, 1994.

 Analyzes the effects of NAFTA on Mexican sovereignty.

Luis Gonzalez Souza, México en la estrategia de Estados Unidos: Enfoques a la luz del TLC y la democracia. Mexico, D.F.: Siglo XXI Editores, 1993.

 An analysis of U.S.-Mexico relations in light of the NAFTA/TLC.

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James R. Holbein and Donald J. Musch, eds., North American Free Trade Agreements. Dobbs Ferry: Oceana, 1992.

 A multivolume looseleaf set including both NAFTA and its predecessor, the U.S.- Canada Free Trade Agreement. Includes the text of the treaties, implementing legislation, supplemental agreements on labor and the environment. Major Mexican laws are provided in translation. Commentaries on NAFTA law and practice. NAFTA Panel decisions consolidated in volume I. Updated about 6 times per year.

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Guillermo Ibarra Escobar, compilador, Relaciones México-California : más allá de la frontera. Culiacán Rosales, Sinaloa, México : Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa : Sistema de Investigación del Mar de Cortés, 1997.
 A collection of essays, all in Spanish, by Mexican and American authors exploring relations between Mexico and the state of California. Topics include regional integration, the Tijuana-San Diego region, telecommunications, Mexicans in California.

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Boris Kozolchyk, ed., Making free trade work in the Americas. Vol. 1: Toward seamless borders. Irvington, N.Y.: Transnational Juris Publications, Inc., 1993.

 A collection of articles on investment, banking, the environment, and dispute resolution.

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Joseph A. McKinney, Created from NAFTA: the structure, function, and significance of the treaty’s related institutions. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

 Background information on the development of the treaty; discussion of NAFTA-related institutions: the Free Trade Commission, the Commission for Labor Cooperation and National Administration office, the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Border Environment Cooperative Commission, North American Development Bank, and dispute settlement bodies. Bibliography. Listing of relevant web pages.

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NAFTA: What you need to know. New York: Practising Law Institute, 1994.

 Includes several chapters on Mexico, investing in Mexico, cross-border disputes under NAFTA, Import-export consideration.

Joseph J. Norton, and Thomas L. Bloodworth, eds., NAFTA and beyond: a new framework for doing business in the Americas. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1995.

A collection of essays; broad view of the NAFTA from the Mexican, U.S. and Canadian perspectives; includes information on immigration, the environment, secured credit transactions in Mexico.

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William A. Orme, Jr., Understanding NAFTA: Mexico, free trade and the new North America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

 Written while NAFTA was being drafted and negotiated; examines new institutions created by NAFTA such as dispute resolution boards, tripartite labor and environmental commissions, border agencies and development banks.

Loretta Ortiz Ahlf et al., Aspectos juridícos del Tratado de Libre Comercio de America del Norte y sus acuerdos paralelos (TLCAN), 2d ed. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Themis, 1998.

 Comercio de Bienes, Barreras Técnicas al comercio, Compras del Sector Public, Propriedad intelectual, Disposiciones administrativos institutcionales, Otras Dispsiciones, El Derecho internacional publico de Mexico en la negociacion del TLCAN.

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Leonel Pereznieto Castro, ed., El TLC, una introducción. México: Grupo Editorial Monte Alto, 1994.

 Covers commerce in goods, technical barriers to trade, investment, intellectual property, etc.; includes the two side agreements on labor (Acuerdo de Cooperación Laboral de América del Norte) and the environment (Acuerdo de Cooperación Ambiental de América del Norte); in Spanish.

Guy Poitras, Inventing North America: Canada, Mexico and the United States. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001.
Examines the phenomenon of regionalism in the 21^st century as it applies in North America. The author examines seven major themes: the evolving balance of power, the shifting role of the state, globalization, multilateralism, disparities in wealth and power, differences between the north and south, and ethnonational politics.

Public Citizen, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

http://www.citizen.org/trade/nafta/
 Public Citizen concludes that NAFTA has not delivered U.S. jobs, better wages in Mexico, environmental clean-up, and improved health in border areas. The website contains links to articles, downloadable documents, press releases and publications.

Martín Puchet Anyul and Lionello F. Punzo, eds., Mexico beyond NAFTA: perspectives for the European debate. London: Routlege, 2001.
 A collection of essays by Mexican economists published as the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement entered into force. See, e.g., María Elena Cardero, The external relationship of the Mexican economy with the United States, and its implications beyond trade and Sárah Martínez Pellégrini, Regional policies in the North American and European integration agreements.

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José María Ramos, Desarrollo regional y relación transfronteriza, el caso México - California. Mexico: INAP, 1996.

 A study of intergovernmental, economic and financial relations along the U.S.-Mexico border, with comparisons to European Union border cooperation; also comments on California’s Proposition 187. Book is the winner of the Premio INAP / Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública Prize; includes a bibliography.

Maryse Robert, Negotiating NAFTA, Explaining the Outcome in culture, textiles, autos, and pharmaceuticals. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000

 Provides a framework to help explain trade negotiations and the process by which outcomes are reached; objectives of the negotiators, resources and tactics.

Leslie J. Rockenbach, The Mexican-American Border and  NAFTA/Global Linkages. New York: Routledge, 2001.

 Based on a Ph.D. dissertation from SUNY Buffalo; argues that NAFTA has devastated labor interests and exploited the border ecosystem.

Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza et al., Trade rules in the making: challenges in regional and multilateral negotiations. Washington, D.C.: Organization of American States: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

 Joint project of OAS, Georgetown and WTO: conference in May 1998, Free Trade of the Americas Agreement; textbook for training course for government officials from smaller economies of the Americas.

Jerry M. Rosenberg, Encyclopedia of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the New American community, and Latin American trade. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

 NAFTA and the NAC (New American Community -- Central and South America and the Caribbean); alphabetical, encyclopedic arrangement; entries range from a brief comment ("dangerous substances") to two or more pages in length ("maquiladoras").

                    
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Hale E. Sheppard, Salvaging trade, economic and political relations with Mexico in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks:  a call for a reevaluation of U.S. law and policy, 20 Boston University International Law Journal 33 (Spring 2002).
 The author examines recent U.S. legal and policy decisions affecting Mexico such as the delay of cross-border trucking, the Byrd amendment (P.L. 106-387, sections 1001 et seq.), and increased security and restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Clint E. Smith, Inevitable partnership: understanding Mexico-U.S. relations. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.

 Traces the history of U.S.-Mexico relations in the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses prospects for Mexico's economic future in light of NAFTA and Mexico's political and economic transformation. Also, an analysis of Mexican immigration and U.S. immigration policy. 

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Presentations at the Tenth Annual Conference of the United States-Mexico Law Institute, Inc., 10 United States-Mexico Law Journal 1 (2002).
 Each issue of the U.S.-Mexico Law Journal consists of presentations at the annual conference, covering issues of interest to the U.S. and Mexico, such as NAFTA and aspects of the legal and economic systems of the two countries. For example, several presentations at the tenth annual (September 2001) conference dealt with U.S. and Mexican economic convergence. 

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Mónica Verea Campos et al., coordinadores, Nueva agenda bilateral en la relación México-Estados Unidos. México : Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones Sobre América del Norte : Fondo de Cultura Económico, 1998.
 A collection of essays, all in Spanish, by Mexican and U.S. authors on four themes: Fundamentos del nuevo esquema de cooperación, Visiones actuales de temas tradicionales, Neuvos temas, nevos actores, Negocios y finanzas.

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J.H.H. Weiler and Sungjoon Cho, The law of regional economic integration in the American hemisphere 
http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/nafta/
 Web guide and teaching materials for a Spring 2002 course about NAFTA. Links to primary and secondary sources: text of the NAFTA, case law, research guides, conference papaers, etc. Teaching materials, including some primary materials, are available in .rtf and .pdf formats.

Jorge Witker, coordinador, Legal Aspects of the Trilateral Free Trade Agreement. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992.

 A collection of essays from Canadian, Mexican and U.S. writers: e.g., The Current State of Preparations for a Free Trade Agreement; Effects of Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade in Lawyers’ Professional Practice; Transfer of Technology and the Mexico-United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement; Considerations on the Possible Effects of the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, The United States and Canada on the Mexican Export Maquiladora Industry.

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Last revised: 10/30/02