The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice,
and Policy
di Mitsuo Matsushita (Autore), Thomas J.
Schoenbaum (Autore)
The WTO is one of the most important
intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions
as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly
understood. This comprehensively revised new edition of the acclaimed work by
an outstanding team of WTO law specialists provides a complete overview of the
law and practice of the WTO.
The authors begin with the institutional law of
the WTO (such as the sources of law and remedies of the dispute settlement
system), then tackle the principal substantive obligations of the WTO regime
(including tariffs, quotas, and MFN). They then move on to consider unfair
trade, regional trading arrangements, and developing countries. In its final
section the book deals with the consequences of globalization: first, where
free trade is seen to be incompatible with environmental protection and,
second, where WTO law confronts legal regimes governing issues of competition
and intellectual property.
