The Future of International Economic Law

This book comprises fifteen specially commissioned contributions from the Editorial Board of the Oxford Journal of International Economic Law in celebration of the Journal's tenth anniversary. The contributions examine various issues confronting the international economic regime today, and cover a wide range of international economic institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO. It pays particular attention to examining the WTO and its regulatory scope, its systemic and structural deficiencies, its role in development and in liberalising trade in services, its tense relationship to regionalism and to trade-related issues such as environment, competition and dispute settlement in the field of investment. The contributions are authored by leading academics in the field, including lawyers, economists, and political scientists who come from a range of developed and developing country backgrounds. This book constitutes a reflection by important individuals on almost all the major contemporary issues facing the WTO today, and therefore represents a snapshot of the key lines of thinking among many of the leading legal scholars of the WTO and international economic regime which are likely to guide the field in the years to come. This is a book edition of the special 10th anniversary third issue of vol. 10 of the Oxford Journal of International Economic Law September 2007 Contributors to this volume - William J. Davey, University of Illinois College of Law Hector R. Torres, Alternate Executive Director, IMF, Washington DC Frank J. Garcia, Boston College Law School Debra P. Steger, University of Ottawa Thomas Cottier, World Trade Institute, Berne Daniel C. Esty, Yale Law School Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute, Italy Seung Wha Chang, Seoul National University, Korea Frederick M. Abbott, Florida State University College of Law Matthew Schaefer, University of Nebraska Gary Hufbauer, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, USA Sherry Stephenson, Acting Director of the Institute of Trade, Tourism, and Competitiveness, OAS Joel P. Trachtman, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, USA Andrew Green, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law Michael Trebilcock, University Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Steven Charnovitz, George Washington University Law School David J. Gerber, Chicago-Kent College of Law Won-Mog Choi, Ewha Womans University, Korea