Over the past 10 years, the content and application of international trade law has grown dramatically. The WTO created a binding dispute settlement process and in resolving disputes, the judicial organs of the WTO have built up a substantial amount of new international trade law. Emerging from this new WTO process is an international trade law system that is in some respects self-contained and in other respects overlapping and linked to other international legal, economic and political regimes. The 'boundaries' of trade law are now generating enormous interest and controversy which, at a broader level, is subsumed within the debate over globalisation.
The detailed development of the rules of international trade is being examined with increasing frequency by scholars, government officials and trade law practitioners. But how does it fit with existing systems? How it is modified by them? How does the international trade law system affect and modify other regimes?
This Handbook places international trade law within its broader context, providing comment and critique on contemporary thinking on a range of questions both related specifically to the discipline of international trade law itself and to the outside face of international trade law and its intersection with States and other aspects of the international system. It examines the economic and institutional context of the world trading system, its substantive law (including regional trade regimes) and the settlement of disputes. The final part of the book explores the wider framework of the world trading system, considering issues including the relationship of the WTO to civil society, the use of economic sanctions, state responsibility, and the regulation of multinational corporations.
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Edited by:
Daniel Bethlehem (Legal Advisor UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office),
Donald McRae (Hyman Soloway Professor,
University of Ottawa,
Canada),
Rodney Neufeld (Legal Officer,
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade),
Isabelle Van Damme (Fellow,
College Lecturer in Law,
Clare College Cambridge and Affiliated University Lecturer in Law,
University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 171mm,
Spine: 52mm
Weight: 1.548kg
ISBN: 9780199231928
ISBN 10: 0199231923
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 856
Publication Date: 29 December 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
INTRODUCTION 1: Daniel Bethlehem Rodney Neufeld Donald McRae Isabelle Van Damme: Introduction Part I: THE ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM 2: Gil Winham: The Evolution of the World Trading System - The Economic and Policy Context 3: John Jackson: The Evolution of the World Trading System - The Legal and Institutional Context 4: Donald McRae: The Place of the WTO in the International System PART II: SUBSTANTIVE LAW 5: Pieter Jan Kuijper: WTO Institutional Aspects 6: Federico Ortino: GATT 7: Andrew Lang: GATS 8: Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon: TRIPS 9: Gabrielle Marceau and Joel Trachtman : Responding to National Concerns 10: David Gantz: Regional Trade Agreements PART III: SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES 11: Valerie Hughes: The Institutional Dimension 12: Isabelle Van Damme: Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, and Interpretation 13: Alan Yanovich and Werner Zdouc: Procedural and Evidentiary Issues 14: Jan Bohanes and Nicolas Lockhart: Standard of Review in WTO law 15: Piet Eeckhout: Remedies and Compliance 16: William Davey: The Limits of Judicial Processes PART IV: TRADE AND EL THE NEW AGENDA AND LINKAGE ISSUES 17: Hunter Nottage: Trade and Development 18: Daniel Bodansky and Jessica Lawrence: Trade and Environment 19: Gabrielle Marceau: Trade and Labour 20: Lorand Bartels: Trade and Human Rights 21: Jeffrey Atik: Trade and Health 22: Rodney Neufeld: Trade and Investment 23: Mitsuo Matsushita: Trade and Competition Policy PART V: THE WIDER FRAMEWORK 24: Marcos Orellana: WTO and Civil Society 25: Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Théo Boutruche: International Trade Law, United Nations Law, and Collective Security Issues 26: Craig Forcese: Regulating Multinational Corporations and International Trade Law CONCLUSION 27: Joseph Weiler: Law, Culture, and Values in the WTO- Gazing into the Crystal Ball
Daniel Bethlehem is Legal Adviser to the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Prior to taking up this position, he was Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and Queens Counsel practising at 20 Essex Street Chambers in London. Donald McRae is the Hyman Soloway Professor of Business and Trade Law at the University of Ottawa. He has been counsel in WTO disputes and has sat on dispute settlement panels under the Canada-US Free Trade, Agreement, NAFTA, the WTO and ICSID. He is a member of the International Law Commission. Rodney Neufeld is a Legal Officer at the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Oceans Law Section. He also teaches international law, including international economic law, at the Universities of Ottawa and Carleton, and is an Executive Committee Member of the Canadian Council on International Law. Dr. Isabelle Van Damme is a Fellow and College Lecturer at Clare College and Affiliated University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law. She has published and lectured on WTO law, EU law, the law of treaties, the fragmentation of international law, and international institutional law.
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law
The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law is an important contribution to the literature and one that will appeal to the scholar, practitioner, and advanced student of international law and economic relations --Mary Footer, World Trade Reviews
