An Institutional and Normative Analysis of the World Trade Organization

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14961-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 830 g

Reihe: Legal Aspects of International Organizations

This book establishes a framework for analysis of the institutional and normative character of the WTO by locating the organization in a broader theory of international institutional law and in determining the basis for the conferral and exercise of powers in relation to its executive, legislative and adjudicative functions. The WTO is also read as an international regime in order to go beyond its formal legal and constitutional bases and to observe the Members’ practice in the context of the former semi-institutionalised GATT treaty regime with which it retains strong links. WTO decision-making, which underpins and informs its institutional and normative acts, is analysed in order to better understand the dynamics of the organization. Normative developments in the WTO are reviewed from the perspective of the creation, maintenance and revision of legally binding and non-binding or ‘soft’ law norms, in the sense of principles, rules and standards contained in primary treaty rules, which set out the rights and obligations of the Members, and subsidiary rule-making activity by WTO bodies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Footer, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements,
List of Abbreviations,
Table of Cases,
Introduction,
Chapter I Organisational and institutional aspects,
Chapter II The dynamics of a regime,
Chapter III Decision-making,
Chapter IV Principal rule-making,
Chapter V Subsidiary rule-making, Conclusions, Institutional developments, Normative developments,
Bibliography,
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Footer is Professor of International Economic Law in the Faculty of Law & Social Sciences, The University of Nottingham.