The Prospects of International Trade Regulation: from Fragmentation to Coherence

For a long time, the GATT led life of its own as aself-contained regime. The evolution from tariff barriers brought about increasing overlaps with other regulatory areas. WTO rules increasingly interface with other areas of law and policy, labour standars, investment, human right and regional integration. Againts this backdrop, this book examines fragmentation in international trade regulation …

The Law and Politics of WTO Waivers: Stability and Flexibility in Public Inte…

Despite being an important legal instrument in the law of the WTO, the waiver has hitherto been the subject of little scholarly analysis. Isabel Feichtner fills this gap by challenging the conventional view that the WTO's political bodies do not engage in significant law-making. She systemizes the GATT and WTO waiver practice and suggests a typology of waivers as individual exceptions, general …

Legal Principles In WTO Disputes

Having passed its thirteenth anniversary, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the most important international organisations in existence. As the only global intergovernmental organisation concerned with tje rules of trade between nations, it is the learding forum for trade negotiations and for the resolution of trade disputes. Its dispute settlement system has attracted enormo…

The law and policy of the World Trade Organization

This is primarily a textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of law; however, practising lawyers and policy-makers who are looking for an introduction to WTO law will also find it invaluable. The book covers both the institutional and substantive law of the WTO. While the treatment of the law is quite detailed, the main aim of this textbook is to make clear the basic princip…

Trade Governance In the Digital Age: World Trade Forum

The development of new digital technologies has resulted in significant transformations in daily life, from the arrival of online shopping to more fundamental changes in the ways we work and communicate. Many of these changes raise questions that transcend market access and liberalisation and demand cooperation and coherrent regulatory design. International trade regulation has hitherto not rea…

Processes And Production Methods (PPMs) In WTO Law: Interfacing Trade And Soc…