Giorgio Sacerdoti / Alan Yanovich / Jan Bohanes (eds.)

The Wto at Ten

The Contribution of the Dispute Settlement System
Herausgeber: Bohanes, Jan; Yanovich, Alan; Sacerdoti, Giorgio

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Produktbeschreibung

Assesses the past ten years of the WTO and the dispute settlement system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1077g
• ISBN-13: 9780521863148
• ISBN-10: 0521863147
• Artikelnr.: 22750885

Autorenporträt

Giorgio Sacerdoti has been a Member of the WTO Appellate Body since 2001. He is also Professor of International Law and European Law (Jean Monnet chair) at Bocconi University, Milan.
Alan Yanovich has been a Counsellor at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat since 2001. He was previously a legal adviser at the General Secretariat of the Andean Community.
Jan Bohanes has been Legal Officer at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat since 2002. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at the Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (tralac).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors; Foreword Pascal Lamy; Acknowledgements; Table of
dispute settlement cases; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The
WTO at Ten: 1. The WTO at ten: building on ten years of achievements
Supachai Panitchpakdi; 2. The WTO: ten years after its establishment Renato
Ruggiero; 3. From Doha to Hong Kong and beyond: a parliamentarian's
perspective Enrique Barón Crespo; 4. The dispute settlement system of the
WTO in action: a perspective on the first ten years Giorgio Sacerdoti; Part
II. Trade Negotiations and Dispute Settlement: What Balance Between
Political Governance and Judicialization?: 5. The Appellate Body, the WTO
dispute settlement system and the politics of multilateralism Robert Howse
and Susan Esserman; 6. WTO dispute settlement: a brief reality check
Alejandro Jara; 7. From 'member-driven governance' to constitutionally
limited 'multilevel trade governance' in the WTO Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann;
8. Homage to a Bull Moose III: striking the correct balance between
political governance and judicialization in the WTO Elissa Alben and
Timothy Reif; 9. Drawing a line of equilibrium in a complex world Hélène
Ruiz Fabri; 10. WTO law in context: the integration of international human
rights and environmental law in the dispute settlement process Francesco
Francioni; 11. The limits of the WTO: facing non-trade issues Friedl Weiss;
Part III. From Initiating Proceedings to Ensuring Implementation: What
Needs Improvement?: 12. The WTO dispute settlement system - from initiating
proceedings to ensuring implementation: what needs improvement? Valerie
Hughes; 13. The umpire needs better rules of the game Jacques Bourgeois;
14. DSU reform: if it is not broken - improve it? Daniel Brinza; 15. DSU
reform: resolving underlying balance-of-power issues Thomas Cottier;
16. From initiating proceedings to ensuring implementation: the links with
the community legal order Pieter Jan Kuijper; Part IV. Ten Years and
Sixty-Three Cases Later: The Contribution of the Appellate Body to the
Development of International Trade Law: 17. Assessing the 'success' of the
Appellate Body over the first ten years John Lockhart; 18. From
afterthought to centrepiece: the WTO Appellate Body and its rise to
prominence in the world trading system Peter Van den Bossche; 19. Balance
and coherence by the WTO Appellate Body: who could do better? Gabrielle
Marceau; 20. Looking for Mr and Mrs Right: ten years of the Appellate Body
at the WTO Petros Mavroidis; 21. Treaty interpretation and the development
of international trade law by the WTO Appellate Body Donald McRae; 22. The
emergence of non-state actors in international commercial disputes through
WTO Appellate Body case-law Brigitte Stern; 23. The Appellate Body's
working procedures for appellate review Victoria Donaldson and Alan
Yanovich; 24. Reflections on the concept of 'judicial economy' in WTO
dispute settlement Jan Bohanes and Andreas Sennekamp; Part V. Treaty
Interpretation in International Law: Comparing the Appellate Body with the
Courts in the Hague, Hamburg and Luxembourg: 25. The Appellate Body and
treaty interpretation Georges Abi-Saab; 26. Methods and practice of treaty
interpretation by the International Court of Justice Gilbert Guillaume; 27.
The jurisprudence of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance
of the European Communities Paolo Mengozzi; 28. The European Court of
Justice: sources of law and methods of interpretation Allan Rosas; 29. The
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: applicable law and
interpretation Tullio Treves; Annex: statistics on appellate review; Index.