The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO
The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO

Author: John H. Jackson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-03-05

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780521035644

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This book contains a selection of essays and articles by John H. Jackson previously published over four decades and now collected together into one volume. Each article has been selected for its continued timeliness and relevance to contemporary issues in international trade. Particular attention has been given to making available articles that have previously been less accessible. For the most part articles are republished in their original form but, where appropriate, the author has clearly marked some omissions and added updating material. An indispensable addition to every international trade library.

An Institutional And Normative Analysis of the World Trade Organization
An Institutional And Normative Analysis of the World Trade Organization

Author: Mary E. Footer

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 9004149619

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This book establishes a framework for analysis of the institutional and normative character of the WTO by locating the organization in a broader theory of international institutional law and in determining the basis for the conferral and exercise of powers in relation to its executive, legislative and adjudicative functions. The WTO is also read as an international regime in order to go beyond its formal legal and constitutional bases and to observe the Members' practice in the context of the former semi-institutionalised GATT treaty regime with which it retains strong links. WTO decision-making, which underpins and informs its institutional and normative acts, is analysed in order to better understand the dynamics of the organization. Normative developments in the WTO are reviewed from the perspective of the creation, maintenance and revision of legally binding and non-binding or 'soft' law norms, in the sense of principles, rules and standards contained in primary treaty rules, which set out the rights and obligations of the Members, and subsidiary rule-making activity by WTO bodies.