The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law

Edited by Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, and Isabelle Van Damme

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The first single-volume systematic approach to this complex subject
A comprehensive reference point on the broad context and future development of the world trading system
Explores the relationships between the world trading system for other areas of international law
Each chapter contains a select reading list to direct further research

The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law

Edited by Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, and Isabelle Van Damme

Description

Over the past 10 years, the content and application of international trade law has grown dramatically. The WTO created a binding dispute settlement process and in resolving disputes, the judicial organs of the WTO have built up a substantial amount of new international trade law. Emerging from this new WTO process is an international trade law system that is in some respects self-contained and in other respects overlapping and linked to other international legal, economic and political regimes. The 'boundaries' of trade law are now generating enormous interest and controversy which, at a broader level, is subsumed within the debate over globalization.

The detailed development of the rules of international trade is being examined with increasing frequency by scholars, government officials and trade law practitioners. But how does it fit with existing systems? How it is modified by them? How does the international trade law system affect and modify other regimes?

This Handbook places international trade law within its broader context, providing comment and critique on contemporary thinking on a range of questions both related specifically to the discipline of international trade law itself and to the outside face of international trade law and its intersection with States and other aspects of the international system. It examines the economic and institutional context of the world trading system, its substantive law (including regional trade regimes) and the settlement of disputes. The final part of the book explores the wider framework of the world trading system, considering issues including the relationship of the WTO to civil society, the use of economic sanctions, state responsibility, and the regulation of multinational corporations.

The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law

Edited by Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, and Isabelle Van Damme

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INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction, Daniel Bethlehem Rodney Neufeld Donald McRae Isabelle Van Damme
Part I: THE ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM
2. The Evolution of the World Trading System - The Economic and Policy Context, Gil Winham
3. The Evolution of the World Trading System - The Legal and Institutional Context, John Jackson
4. The Place of the WTO in the International System, Donald McRae
PART II: SUBSTANTIVE LAW
5. WTO Institutional Aspects, Pieter-Jan Kuijper
6. Core Principles, Ichiro Araki
7. GATT, Federico Ortino
8. GATS, Andrew Lang
9. TRIPS, Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon
10. Responding to National Concerns, Joel Trachtman and Gabrielle Marceau
11. Regional Trade Regimes, David Gantz
PART III: SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES
12. The Institutional Dimension, Valerie Hughes
13. Interpretation, Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, Isabelle Van Damme
14. Procedural and Evidentiary Issues, Alan Yanovich and Werner Zdouc
15. Standard of Review, Nicolas Lockhart and Jan Bohanes
16. Remedies and Compliance, Piet Eeckhout
17. The Limits of Judicial Processes, Bill Davey
PART IV: TRADE AND L THE NEW AGENDA AND LINKAGE ISSUES
18. Development, Hunter Nottage
19. Environment, Dan Bodansky and Jessica Lawrence
20. Labour, Gabrielle Marceau, Froukje Boele, and Francis Maupain
21. Human Rights, Lorand Bartels
22. Health, Jeffrey Atik
23. Investment, Rodney Neufeld
24. Competition Policy, Mitsuo Matsushita
PART V: THE WIDER FRAMEWORK
25. WTO and Civil Society, Marcos Orellana
26. International Trade Law and Economic Sanctions and the Use of Force, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Theo Boutruche
27. International Trade Law and State Responsibility, Daniel Bethlehem
28. Regulating Multinational Corporations, Craig Forcese
CONCLUSION
29. The Future of International Trade Disciplines, Joseph Weiler

The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law

Edited by Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, and Isabelle Van Damme

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Author Information

Daniel Bethlehem is Legal Adviser to the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Prior to taking up this position, he was Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and Queens Counsel practising at 20 Essex Street Chambers in London.

Donald McRae is the Hyman Soloway Professor of Business and Trade Law at the University of Ottawa. He has been counsel in WTO disputes and has sat on dispute settlement panels under the Canada-US Free Trade, Agreement, NAFTA, the WTO and ICSID. He is a member of the International Law Commission.

Rodney Neufeld is a Legal Officer at the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Oceans Law Section. He also teaches international law, including international economic law, at the Universities of Ottawa and Carleton, and is an Executive Committee Member of the Canadian Council on International Law.

Dr. Isabelle Van Damme is a Fellow and College Lecturer at Clare College and Affiliated University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. She is also a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law in Cambridge. She has published and lectured on WTO law, EU law, the law of treaties, the fragmentation of international law, and international institutional law.

Contributors:

Ichiro Araki : Yokohama National University
Jeffrey Atik : Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Lorand Bartels : University of Cambridge, Visiting at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Daniel Bethlehem : United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Dan Bodansky : Georgia School of Law
Jan Bohanes : Sidley Austin LLP, Geneva
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes : University of Geneva
Theo Boutruche : University of Geneva
Bill Davey : University of Illionois College of Law
Piet Eeckhout : King's College London
Craig Forcese : University of Ottawa
David Gantz : University of Arizona
Valerie Hughes : Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Ontario
John Jackson : Georgetown University Law Center
Pieter-Jan Kuijper : European Commission
Andrew Lang :London School of Economics and Political Science
Jessica Lawrence : Georgia
Nicolas Lockhart : Sidley Austin LLP, Geneva
Donald McRae : University of Ottawa
Gabrielle Marceau : Legal Affairs Division of the WTO Secretariat
Mitsuo Matsushita : Seikei University, Tokyo
Andrew Mitchell : Melbourne Law School
Rodney Neufeld : Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs
Hunter Nottage : The Advisory Centre on WTO Law, Geneva
Marcos Orellana : Center for International Environemtal Law, Washington DC
Federico Ortino : British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Joel Trachtman : Tufts University, Massachusetts
Isabelle Van Damme : Clare College Cambridge
Tania Voon : Melbourne Law School
Joseph Weiler : New York University
Gil Winham : Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Alan Yanovich : WTO Appellate Body Secretariat
Werner Zdouc : Director of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat

The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law

Edited by Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, and Isabelle Van Damme

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"The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law is an important contribution to the literature and one that will appeal to the scholar, practitioner, and advanced student of international law and economic relations" --Mary Footer, World Trade Reviews