Development at the WTO

by Rolland, Sonia E.

• ISBN13: 9780191738364
• ISBN10: 0191738360
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-04-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sonia E. Rolland, Associate Professor, Northeastern University School of Law

Sonia Rolland conducts research and teaches at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston. Her work focuses on public international law and trade law, and is informed by regular exchanges with delegates and members of the WTO community. She has practiced law in Washington DC and has clerked at the International Court of Justice. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from the Universite Paris 10-Nanterre (France), and the Diplome of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART 1: Development and its Institutions in International Economic Law: Who Decides what Development Means?
1. The Multiple Meanings of Development
2. The Contribution of International Organizations to Development Policy-Making
PART 2: Framing Development at the GATT and WTO
3. The Trade and Development Relationship during the GATT years and the Genesis of the WTO
4. "Developing member" and LDC status at the GATT and WTO: Self-Designation versus the politics of accession
5. From the Uruguay Round to the Doha Round: The rise of developing countries' participation in the WTO
PART 3: Understanding and Contextualizing WTO Development Provisions
6. Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO Agreements: A legal analysis
7. Invoking Development in Dispute Settlement
8. Reconsidering SDT in the global context
9. Institutional processes: What impact on developing members?
PART 4: Rethinking the Trade and Development Relationship at the WTO
10. The Doha Round: Chronicle of a death foretold
11. Strategic challenges to integrating development at the WTO
12. Proposals for reform
Conclusion