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Sovereignty, the WTO, and Changing Fundamentals of International LawJohn H. Jackson

Features• Examines the essential constitutional and jurisprudential contours of the WTO• Explores the impact of globalization on international law and international economic law• Explores particular difficulties with traditional, fundamental assumptions in international law

Contents

Part I. Challenges to International Law Fundamental Assumptions

1. Introduction: International law and international economic law in the interdependent world of the twenty-first century

2. The real world impinges on international law: exploring the challenges to the fundamental assumptions of international law and institutions

3. Sovereignty modern: a new approach to an outdated concept

Part II. The WTO

4. The WTO as international organization: institutional evolution, structure and key problems

5. The WTO dispute settlement system

Part III. The Search for Solutions

6. Policy, analytical approaches and thought experiments

7. Illustrative applications

8. Perspectives, implications, and some conclusions

This book grapples with the long-held assumptions of international law (such as the consent basis of international law norms, equality of nations, restrictive or text-based treaty interpretations and applications, the monopoly of internal national power, and non-interference), and how they are being fundamentally altered by the forces of globalization.

It also examines the challenges facing the WTO as a component of international economic law, and how that field is inextricably linked to general international law.

Features

• Examines the essential constitutional and jurisprudential contours of the WTO• Explores the impact of globalization on international law and international economic law• Explores particular difficulties with traditional, fundamental assumptions in international law

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About the authorJohn Jackson is professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the editorial board for The World Economy and the editor in chief and a founding editor of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL). Professor Jackson is also Director of the Institute of International Economic Law at GULC.

In 1992, Professor Jackson received the Wolfgang Friedman Memorial Award for lifelong contribution to the field of international law. A volume of essays in his honour was published in 2001 by authors from four different continents. In June 2003, he was appointed by WTO Director-General, Dr. Supachai Panitchpadki, to a newly constituted WTO Consultative Board.

LevelLegal practitionersGraduate studentsAcademic researchers

ReadershipInternational economic and trade lawWTO lawInternational relations

March 2006 228 x 152 mm 388 pages 978 0 521 86007 9 (0 521 86007 5) HB £55.00

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