The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law

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 globalisation. 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. Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Contributors to this volume - 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