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The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in International Law

The Development of World Trade Organization Law: Examining Change in International Law

Author: Gregory Messenger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198716464
Published In: January 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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The World Trade Organization is a central player in the regulation of international trade. As the rights and duties that form WTO law are not created in a vacuum, 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 Lawexamines the development of the law of the WTO through an analysis of competing global actors, norms, and institutions that have influence over it. 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.

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.

1. Introduction
2. International Law in a Globalized World
3. The WTO as a Site of Globalized Legal Development
4. Safeguard Measures - Legal Change and Expected Developments
5. SPS Measures and Inter-Institutional Contestations
6. Subsidies Regulation and the Public-Private Relationship
7. Conclusion