Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization
The WTO Case Law of 2002: The American Law Institute Reporters’
Studies
hardbound, ix, 284 pp., 2005, available from Cambridge University Press in Cambridge (www.cambridge.org/uk) for £55.00, New York (www.cambridge.org/us) for $95, and Australia (www.cambridge.org/aus) for AUD$ 199.00 (inclusive of GST) (Export price AUD$180.91)
The WTO Case Law of 2001: The American Law Institute Reporters’ Studies
hardbound, x, 313 pp., 2003, available from Cambridge University Press in Cambridge (www.cambridge.org/uk) for £55.00, New York (www.cambridge.org/us) for $95, and Australia (www.cambridge.org/aus) for AUD$ 190.00 (inclusive of GST) (export price AUD$172.73)
For three years Cambridge University Press will be publishing annual analyses, produced by the Reporters for the ALI’s new project on World Trade Law, of decisions by the World Trade Organization. Each Reporters’ Study, the joint product of a lawyer and an economist, will examine and critique a particular WTO decision from both legal and economic perspectives. Each represents the work of the individual Reporters rather than that of the Institute. The first two of the three volumes, The WTO Case Law of 2001: The American Law Institute Reporters’ Studies and The WTO Case Law of 2002: The American Law Institute Reporters’ Studies, are available now and can be ordered from the CUP websites in Cambridge, New York, and Australia set forth above. The Editors are the Chief Reporters for the Institute’s project, Henrik Horn of Stockholm University and Petros C. Mavroidis of Columbia University and the University of Neuchâtel. A study of the 2003 cases will appear subsequently.
The Reporters’ Studies for 2001 and 2002 cover a wide range of WTO law including classic trade-in-goods issues, intellectual-property protection, tax treatment for “Foreign Sales Corporations,” and export credits and loan guarantees for regional aircraft. The Reporters critically review the jurisprudence of WTO adjudicating bodies and evaluate whether the ruling “makes sense” from an economic as well as legal point of view, and if not, whether the problem lies in the interpretation of the law or in the law itself. The Studies do not necessarily cover all issues discussed in a case, but they seek to discuss both the procedural and the substantive issues that form the “core” of the dispute.
After three years of producing such Studies, the expectation is that the Reporters will have developed a sufficient theoretical and jurisprudential basis for moving to the second phase of the project, one in which principles of trade law will be developed and presented to the Institute for its approval by means of the traditional ALI drafting and reviewing process.