The Development of World Trade Organization Law
The Development of World Trade Organization Law

Author: Gregory Messenger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0191025801

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The World Trade Organization is a central player in international trade regulation. The rights and duties that form WTO law are not created in a vacuum, however, and there exists a complex network of domestic, regional and international influences on the development of WTO law that go beyond the disciplines found in the covered agreements or the interpretations given by panels and the Appellate Body. As such, understanding the development of WTO law in a wider institutional context is critical to comprehending WTO law in a new age of legal globalization. The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in International Law examines the development of WTO law through an analysis of competing global actors, norms, and institutions. Taking a different approach to social-scientific or traditional legal models, this book argues that such globalized actors are the driving force behind the development of WTO law yet not in control of it. Identifying causal language as key to understanding this development, the volume examines three different causal influences: instrumental, systemic, and constitutive. It applies this causal methodology to three key areas of WTO law: safeguard measures, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and subsidies. The volume provides detailed explanations of why the law has developed as it has and offers insights into the future functioning of the WTO system.

Provisionally Applied Treaties: Their Binding Force and Legal Nature
Provisionally Applied Treaties: Their Binding Force and Legal Nature

Author: Anneliese Quast Mertsch

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2012-10-19

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9004223533

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In Provisionally Applied Treaties: Their Binding Force and Legal Nature, Anneliese Quast Mertsch analyses the binding force and legal nature of treaties during the period of their provisional application in light of international practice and academic opinion.

International Institutional Law
International Institutional Law

Author: Henry G. Schermers

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 1336

ISBN-13: 9047412745

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This book offers a comparative analysis of the institutional law of public international organizations, covering issues such as membership, institutional structure, decisions and decision-making, legal status, privileges and immunities. It has been designed to appeal to both academics and practitioners.

Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20
Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20

Author: Malgosia Fitzmaurice

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9004282912

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The Challenges of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20 and Beyond is an innovative and original book which addresses in an analytical and critical way the issues raised by Rio+20. Its content offers a wealth of information from world leading experts in the fields of international law, international environmental law and international health law. The book provides a unique insight in issues which are at the core of the contemporary management of social, environmental and economic questions and thus represents a very important contribution to our further understanding of the concept of sustainable development. It is aimed at a global audience and at anybody interested in the future of our Planet and the fate of future generations. Contributors are: Pia Acconci, Estelle Brosset, Francesco Buonomenna, Lucien Chabason, Carina Costa de Oliveira, Angela Di Stasi, Jérôme Dubois, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Leonardus Gerber, Elizabeth Hodson de Jaramillo, Sophie Lavallée, Antonio Leandro, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Panos Merkouris, Claudia Napoli, Stefania Negri, Anna Oriolo, Rossana Palladino, Teresa Russo, Ingrid Schuler, Francesco Sindico, José Manuel Sobrino Heredia, Hélène Tigroudja, Valentina Vadi, Anna Vigorito

WTO
WTO

Author: Rüdiger Wolfrum

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9004145648

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This volume gives a detailed account of the parameters for technical standards and measures seeking to protect health and environment

WTO - Technical Barriers and SPS Measures
WTO - Technical Barriers and SPS Measures

Author: Rüdiger Wolfrum

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-05-30

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 9047427343

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Technical standards are increasingly determining the development, production, trade in and marketing of goods and services. In order to ensure that technical regulations and product standards which vary from country to country do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade was adopted during the Uruguay Round. It is paralleled by the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures which sets out the basic rules on how governments can apply food safety as well as animal and plant health measures without, however, using them as an excuse for protecting domestic producers. Prominent decisions under the WTO Dispute Settlement have interpreted those provisions. This volume gives a detailed account of the necessary parameters for technical standards and measures seeking to protect health and environment. Included are commentaries on Articles III, XI and XX of GATT 1994 which are equally relevant in this context. The article by article commentaries draw from a considerable body of case law, the work by the TBT and SPS Committee and the relevant legal literature. Attention is given to substantive requirements as well as the necessary standard setting procedures. Apart from a thorough analysis of the relevant and most recent jurisprudence including the Biotech Panel Report the commentary seeks to give answers to newly emerging issues, such as special needs of developing countries. It is an indispensable tool for practitioners and academics working in this field of WTO law.