A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO
Title | A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Marceau |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 689 |
Release | 2015-05-21 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1316299996 |
How did a treaty that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War, and barely survived its early years, evolve into one of the most influential organisations in international law? This unique book brings together original contributions from an unprecedented number of eminent current and former GATT and WTO staff members, including many current and former Appellate Body members, to trace the history of law and lawyers in the GATT/WTO and explore how the nature of legal work has evolved over the institution's sixty-year history. In doing so, it paints a fascinating portrait of the development of the rule of law in the multilateral trading system, and allows some of the most important personalities in GATT and WTO history to share their stories and reflect on the WTO's remarkable journey from a 'provisionally applied treaty' to an international organisation defined by its commitment to the rule of law.
A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO
Title | A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Marceau |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-06-14 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781107448445 |
How did a treaty that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War, and barely survived its early years, evolve into one of the most influential organisations in international law? This unique book brings together original contributions from an unprecedented number of eminent current and former GATT and WTO staff members, including many current and former Appellate Body members, to trace the history of law and lawyers in the GATT/WTO and explore how the nature of legal work has evolved over the institution's sixty-year history. In doing so, it paints a fascinating portrait of the development of the rule of law in the multilateral trading system, and allows some of the most important personalities in GATT and WTO history to share their stories and reflect on the WTO's remarkable journey from a 'provisionally applied treaty' to an international organisation defined by its commitment to the rule of law.
A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO
Title | A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Marceau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789287046598 |
How did a treaty that emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War, and barely survived its early years, evolve into one of the most influential organisations in international law? This unique book brings together original contributions from an unprecedented number of eminent current and former GATT and WTO staff members, including many current and former Appellate Body members, to trace the history of law and lawyers in the GATT/WTO and explore how the nature of legal work has evolved over the institution's sixty-year history. In doing so, it paints a fascinating portrait of the development of the rule of law in the multilateral trading system, and allows some of the most important personalities in GATT and WTO history to share their stories and reflect on the WTO's remarkable journey from a 'provisionally applied treaty' to an international organisation defined by its commitment to the rule of law.
A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO
Title | A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Marceau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Foreign trade regulation |
ISBN | 9781316330074 |
A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO
Title | A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Marceau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Foreign trade regulation |
ISBN | 9781316333419 |
How have GATT/WTO staff and Appellate Body members contributed to the evolution of the rule-of-law in the multilateral trading system?
A Handbook on the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Title | A Handbook on the WTO Dispute Settlement System PDF eBook |
Author | World Trade Organization |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2017-09-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108417272 |
This handbook offers a detailed explanation of the rules and procedures of the WTO dispute settlement system.
Treaty Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body
Title | Treaty Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body PDF eBook |
Author | Isabelle Van Damme |
Publisher | |
Pages | 487 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199562237 |
This book analyzes how the Appellate Body uses particular principles of general international law in interpreting the WTO covered agreements. It deals equally with general international law and WTO law. The aim is to explain how the Appellate Body interprets and applies customary international law on treaty interpretation in dealing with the WTO covered agreements. The main concern is to analyze the judicial reasoning and ways of justifying judicial decision-making. In particular, it answers the question of how the Appellate Body explains its reading of WTO treaty language. It is argued that the Appellate Body has interpreted the WTO covered agreements in a contextual and effective manner, an approach that corresponds with general international law. The character of the WTO covered agreements has, nevertheless, confronted the Appellate Body with some questions of interpretation that were until recently unexplored or neglected by other courts and tribunals. In that sense, the Appellate Body has contributed to the development of general international law on treaty interpretation, or at least to its practice. WTO law is primarily treaty law, but increasingly soft law and broader themes and values from other disciplines, such as governance, variable geometry and legitimacy, are introduced and discussed. Customary international law - with the exception of the principles of treaty interpretation - and general principles of law are often seen as excluded entirely. An ancillary theme of this proposed monograph is the extent to which customary international law and general principles of law have penetrated WTO law through the technique of treaty interpretation.