The Future of International Economic Law

by Jackson, John; Davey, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780199551132
• ISBN10: 0199551138
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book comprises fifteen specially commissioned contributions from the Editorial Board of the Oxford Journal of International Economic Law in celebration of the Journal's tenth anniversary. The contributions examine various issues confronting the international economic regime today, and covers a wide range of international economic institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO. It pays particular attention to examining the WTO and its regulatory scope, its systemic and structural deficiencies, its role in development and in liberalising trade in services, its tense relationship to regionalism and to trade-related issues such as environment, competition and dispute settlement in the field of investment.The contributions are authored by leading academics in the field, including lawyers, economists, and political scientists who come from a range of developed and developing country backgrounds. This book constitutes a reflection by important individuals on almost all the major contemporary issues facing the WTO today, and therefore represents a snapshot of the key lines of thinking among many of the leading legal scholars of the WTO and international economic regime which are likely to guide the field in the years to come.This is a book edition of the special 10th anniversary third issue of vol. 10 of the Oxford Journal of International Economic Law September 2007

Author Biography

John Jackson is the University Professor at the Georgetown University's Law College. He is the editor in chief and a founding editor of the Journal of International Economic Law, and the series editor for the International Economic Law series.
William J. Davey is the Guy Raymond Jones Chair at the College of Law, University of Illinois. He is an associate editor of The Journal of International Economic Law.

Table of Contents

The Future of International Economic Law

Reforming the International Monetary Fund: Why its Legitimacy is at Stake

Global Justice and the Bretton Woods Institutions

The Culture of the WTO: Why it Needs to Change

Preparing for Structural Reform in the WTO

Good Governance at the World Trade Organization: Building a Foundation of Administrative Law

Multilevel Judicial Governance of International Trade Requires a Common Conception of Rule of Law and Justice

WTO for Trade and Development Post-Doha

A New Dominant Trade Species Emerges: Is Bilateralism a Threat?

Ensuring that Regional Trade Agreements Complement the WTO System: US Unilateralism a Supplement to WTO Initiatives?

Services Trade: Past Liberalization and Future Challenges

Regulatory Jurisdiction and the WTO

Enforcing WTO Obligations: What can we Learn from Export Subsidies?

The WTO's Environmental Progress

Competition Law and the WTO: Rethinking the Relationship

The Present and Future of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Paradigm

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